[cseblist] FW: FYI-Asian Long-horned Beetle-media coverage
- From: "Natalie Helferty" <nhelferty@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Carissa Wong" <scbtochapter@xxxxxxxxx>, "CSEB Ontario Freelist" <cseblist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:30:12 -0500
Just to inform CSEB members that if you are out doing field work, be sure to
look for Asian long-horned beetle exit holes. I will send a follow-up email
on an invasive species workshop on Nov. 20 at Seneca College King Campus.
Registration deadline for lunch included with the $15 fee is Nov. 12.
Natalie Helferty
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From: brian.peterkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:brian.peterkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: November 10, 2004 4:16 PM
To: brian.peterkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: FYI-Asian Long-horned Beetle-media coverage
I thought you all might find this interesting.
Brian
Subject: ALHB media coverage
fyi... the following is the coverage from Friday's media briefing.
The following article ran in the York Region papers: the Vaughan
Citizen, the Newmarket Era-Banner, the Markam Economist & Sun and the
Richmond Hill Liberal. The version in the Vaughan Citizen quotes both
Bernie DiVona and Linda Jackson.
Businesses ignore beetle quarantine
Mike Adler, Staff Writer
11/07/04 00:00:00
The Asian long-horned beetle is not gone from Vaughan, the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency says.
The federal agency brought reporters to a parking lot just west of Hwy.
400 in Woodbridge Friday, where exit holes and egg-laying sites on trees
proved some beetles escaped a massive effort to wipe out the invading
insect.
The agency also said several landscaping and disposal firms have been
caught ignoring a federal quarantine by moving firewood or wood products
out of its regulated area -- Woodbridge and much of North York --
without permission.
"Guys did use foul language and threatened our staff," project officer
Howard Stanley added later.
Mr. Stanley stressed it will be years before the authorities can truly
eradicate the beetle, a new and real threat to Canada's hardwood
forests. Ordinary people, he said, must keep watching for it and report
sightings by calling 1-800-442-2342.
"Folks, it's not over yet," he said beside three darkened patches on
grass where silver maples, two with raw egg-laying sites in their bark
and one with the telltale holes from which the adult beetles emerge in
summer, had been found and destroyed.
Slightly more than 100 more trees, all potential hosts on commercial
properties, will be removed around the site this month to stop the
beetle. Since the insect was discovered behind a Woodbridge plaza last
September, around 15,000 trees in North York and Vaughan have been
destroyed.
Surveyors checking for beetles beyond the insect's usual range found 16
other trees with eggs in the regulated area, nine of them in an auto
mall about a kilometre west and five on properties northeast of Jane
Street and Steeles Avenue, Mr. Stanley said.
They also noticed people breaking the quarantine and issued tickets that
will result either in warnings or fines ($400 for a private citizen,
$4,000 for a company) or prosecution for heavier fines and possible jail
time in very serious cases.
"It evades one's common sense that somebody would do something like
this," Mr. Stanley said, adding police have been called in when people
transporting wood became abusive.
One business owner, he said, "snubbed our staff" and said the beetle was
an issue blown out of proportion.
Vaughan councillors Linda Jackson and Bernie Di Vona said they were
disappointed both by the insect's spread and the behaviour of citizens
ignoring the quarantine.
"Are they being defiant or just downright stupid?" Ms Jackson asked.
Mr. Di Vona said the agency received 7,000 calls about the beetle,
suggesting the campaign to inform people about the pest worked.
"We have a long way to go," he acknowledged.
Pictures of the beetle (adults are black with white spots and have long
segmented antennae) can be seen at www.inspection.gc.ca
_______________________________________________
NOV 06, 2004 THE TORONTO SUN PAGE: 26 (NEWS)
BEETLE BACK TO BUG US
NEW INFESTATION FOUND IN VAUGHAN
KEYWORDS: CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY [OR] CFIA [OR] FOOD INSPECTION
AGENCY, TREE* [NEAR] INFECTED [OR] INFESTATION [OR] INSECT [OR] LARVA
[OR] BEETLE [OR] PEST, LEAVES [NEAR] PEST [OR] BEETLE
KEVIN CONNOR, TORONTO SUN
A NEW infestation of the Asian long-horned beetle has been discovered
in Vaughan, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says.
"We need to remove about 100 trees in the area. It's the only
effective (way) to get rid of the beetle," said Howard Stanley,
spokesman for the CFIA.
The site of the infected trees is located north of Hwy. 7 and east of
Weston Rd.
"We will take the trees to a disposal yard and grind them down, which
will kill the insect and larva," Stanley said.
The colder months are the best time to cut down the trees because the
beetle moves more slowly and is unable to fly away.
The Asian long-horned beetle was discovered in trees in Vaughan,
north of Toronto, last September.
Maple trees are especially vulnerable to the pest.
It kills the trees as it burrows and feeds on them, hollowing the
heartwood and leaving a pinky-sized hole when it leaves to mate.
"This is a destructive pest. If it went unchecked it would kill 70%
of our hardwoods," Stanley said.
"We are going to need two years of no-finds to be sure the problem
has been eradicated."
If you believe that you may have found this beetle, please call
1-800-442-2342.
ILLUS: photo by Michael Peake BRUCE D'ANDREA of the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency points to exit holes bored by the Asian long-horned
beetle.
________________________________________________
There was also ALHB coverage on:
* CBC TV - broadcast on Friday;
* The New VR - broadcast on Friday;
* CBC Radio - broadcast on Friday;
* Foxy 88 Radio - broadcast on Saturday;
* Ming Pao - an article ran on Saturday;
* The King Township Sentinel will be running an article in Wednesday's
newspaper;
* Lo Specchio has indicated they will publish an article Friday.
Howard also conducted an interview with Rogers TV, York Region, this
a.m.
Tari
Tari Stork
Communications Officer
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Agence canadienne d'inspection des aliments
1124 Finch Avenue West, Unit 2
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 2E2
(416) 665-5040
storkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I thought you all might find this interesting.
Brian
Subject: ALHB media coverage
fyi... the following is the coverage from Friday's media briefing.
The following article ran in the York Region papers: the Vaughan
Citizen, the Newmarket Era-Banner, the Markam Economist & Sun and the
Richmond Hill Liberal. The version in the Vaughan Citizen quotes both
Bernie DiVona and Linda Jackson.
Businesses ignore beetle quarantine
Mike Adler, Staff Writer
11/07/04 00:00:00
The Asian long-horned beetle is not gone from Vaughan, the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency says.
The federal agency brought reporters to a parking lot just west of Hwy.
400 in Woodbridge Friday, where exit holes and egg-laying sites on trees
proved some beetles escaped a massive effort to wipe out the invading
insect.
The agency also said several landscaping and disposal firms have been
caught ignoring a federal quarantine by moving firewood or wood products
out of its regulated area -- Woodbridge and much of North York --
without permission.
"Guys did use foul language and threatened our staff," project officer
Howard Stanley added later.
Mr. Stanley stressed it will be years before the authorities can truly
eradicate the beetle, a new and real threat to Canada's hardwood
forests. Ordinary people, he said, must keep watching for it and report
sightings by calling 1-800-442-2342.
"Folks, it's not over yet," he said beside three darkened patches on
grass where silver maples, two with raw egg-laying sites in their bark
and one with the telltale holes from which the adult beetles emerge in
summer, had been found and destroyed.
Slightly more than 100 more trees, all potential hosts on commercial
properties, will be removed around the site this month to stop the
beetle. Since the insect was discovered behind a Woodbridge plaza last
September, around 15,000 trees in North York and Vaughan have been
destroyed.
Surveyors checking for beetles beyond the insect's usual range found 16
other trees with eggs in the regulated area, nine of them in an auto
mall about a kilometre west and five on properties northeast of Jane
Street and Steeles Avenue, Mr. Stanley said.
They also noticed people breaking the quarantine and issued tickets that
will result either in warnings or fines ($400 for a private citizen,
$4,000 for a company) or prosecution for heavier fines and possible jail
time in very serious cases.
"It evades one's common sense that somebody would do something like
this," Mr. Stanley said, adding police have been called in when people
transporting wood became abusive.
One business owner, he said, "snubbed our staff" and said the beetle was
an issue blown out of proportion.
Vaughan councillors Linda Jackson and Bernie Di Vona said they were
disappointed both by the insect's spread and the behaviour of citizens
ignoring the quarantine.
"Are they being defiant or just downright stupid?" Ms Jackson asked.
Mr. Di Vona said the agency received 7,000 calls about the beetle,
suggesting the campaign to inform people about the pest worked.
"We have a long way to go," he acknowledged.
Pictures of the beetle (adults are black with white spots and have long
segmented antennae) can be seen at www.inspection.gc.ca
_______________________________________________
NOV 06, 2004 THE TORONTO SUN PAGE: 26 (NEWS)
BEETLE BACK TO BUG US
NEW INFESTATION FOUND IN VAUGHAN
KEYWORDS: CANADIAN FOOD INSPECTION AGENCY [OR] CFIA [OR] FOOD INSPECTION
AGENCY, TREE* [NEAR] INFECTED [OR] INFESTATION [OR] INSECT [OR] LARVA
[OR] BEETLE [OR] PEST, LEAVES [NEAR] PEST [OR] BEETLE
KEVIN CONNOR, TORONTO SUN
A NEW infestation of the Asian long-horned beetle has been discovered
in Vaughan, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says.
"We need to remove about 100 trees in the area. It's the only
effective (way) to get rid of the beetle," said Howard Stanley,
spokesman for the CFIA.
The site of the infected trees is located north of Hwy. 7 and east of
Weston Rd.
"We will take the trees to a disposal yard and grind them down, which
will kill the insect and larva," Stanley said.
The colder months are the best time to cut down the trees because the
beetle moves more slowly and is unable to fly away.
The Asian long-horned beetle was discovered in trees in Vaughan,
north of Toronto, last September.
Maple trees are especially vulnerable to the pest.
It kills the trees as it burrows and feeds on them, hollowing the
heartwood and leaving a pinky-sized hole when it leaves to mate.
"This is a destructive pest. If it went unchecked it would kill 70%
of our hardwoods," Stanley said.
"We are going to need two years of no-finds to be sure the problem
has been eradicated."
If you believe that you may have found this beetle, please call
1-800-442-2342.
ILLUS: photo by Michael Peake BRUCE D'ANDREA of the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency points to exit holes bored by the Asian long-horned
beetle.
________________________________________________
There was also ALHB coverage on:
* CBC TV - broadcast on Friday;
* The New VR - broadcast on Friday;
* CBC Radio - broadcast on Friday;
* Foxy 88 Radio - broadcast on Saturday;
* Ming Pao - an article ran on Saturday;
* The King Township Sentinel will be running an article in Wednesday's
newspaper;
* Lo Specchio has indicated they will publish an article Friday.
Howard also conducted an interview with Rogers TV, York Region, this
a.m.
Tari
Tari Stork
Communications Officer
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Agence canadienne d'inspection des aliments
1124 Finch Avenue West, Unit 2
Toronto, Ontario
M3J 2E2
(416) 665-5040
storkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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