Asian Long-Horned Beetle
Last summer, in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, people had to cross the street to avoid the limbs that were falling from Norway maples that line the neighborhood’s streets. One of them complained, and before long employees from New York’s Parks Department arrived and noticed large holes in the trees. At first they thought the damage was the work of vandals, but the culprits turned out to have six legs, not two- large beetles that had chewed their way out of the maples.
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