Town by town, the dreaded Emerald Ash Borer advances through
Connecticut's woodlands. Here's the Department of Energy and
Environmental Protection's latest bulletin on the discovery of
the pest in three more towns:The Connecticut Agricultural
Experiment Station (CAES) and the Department of Energy and
Environmental Protection (DEEP) today announced that the emerald
ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) has been detected in three new
Connecticut towns – Cheshire, Oxford, and Middlebury – all
located in New Haven County where the insect was previously
found in July 2012. The identification has been confirmed by
federal regulatory officials in the USDA Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine (USDA APHIS-
PPQ). The emerald ash borer is responsible for the death and
decline of tens of millions of ash trees from the mid-west to
New York State and south to Tennessee. Ash makes up about 4% to
15% of Connecticut’s forests and is a common urban tree. The
insects discovered in Cheshire, Oxfor