Asian Beetle Spells Death for Maples So Dear

Stephan Savoia/Associated Press / In Worcester, Mass., a Department of Agriculture worker scours the trees for the insects that have taken hold there in part because of a lack of tree diversity.

Asian Beetle Spells Death for Maples So Dear
By ARIANA GREEN
Published: November 28, 2008
The New York Times
A number of maple trees in Worcester, Mass., will be chopped down because of an infestation of Asian long-horned beetles that is plaguing thousands of trees.

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