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Useful Links: USDA Forest Outreach site USDA Forest Service EAB Techincal Site USDA-APHIS EAB Technical Site EAB Trap hanging instructional video
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You may have seen purple insect traps hanging on ash trees along
the roadways in Western NY last season. The USDA had more than
1500 traps in the area. This year, they need to increase the efforts
to 6000 traps across NY. The USDA is in the process of planning the
2009 season and want to supply at-risk landowners who have a vested
interest in monitoring their own forests with the traps and training
to hang and check them. There is a standard protocol which is fairly
easy to follow and a printable form to submit finds for positive
identification, and it takes about 20 minutes per trap three times
during the season to:
1. hang the trap The schedule for the trap hanging will be to hang the traps during the first week of June, check the traps during the 2nd week of July, then take the traps down during the last week of August. People will be able to pick the traps up at various locations across Western New York with one being located in each county. If you wish to participate in this USDA sponsored program or have further questions that have not been answered in any of these sites, you can notify us or the USDA project leader via the WNYO message board. Click here to reach that site. That board will also be updated more frequently with information as it becomes available. |
