It has long, black-and-white striped antennae, and feasts on maple, horse chestnut, elm, willow, birch, poplar, and ash trees.
The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
According to experts, the insects dig into the bark of hardwood trees, like maple, birch, horse chestnut, poplar, willow, elm and ash, to lay their eggs, which then hatch and burrow into the limbs, destroying tissue and cutting off nutrients.
Since the first findings in Greenpoint, more than 3,500 New York City trees, among about 7,000 nationwide, have been sacrificed to the insects, officials say, and the threat extends to more than 1 billion trees belonging to host species like maple, birch, horse chestnut, poplar, willow, elm and ash.
The exotic pest is a threat to a range of UK broad-leaved trees and shrubs, including Acer (such as sycamore and maple), elm, horse chestnut, willow, poplar and birch.
It leaves behind perfectly round, pencil-diameter holes in the trees it infests -- among them maples, elms, horse chestnuts, poplars, willows and birches -- and there is virtually no mistaking the adults.
"Beech, field maple, hawthorn, hazel, horse chestnut, ivy and sycamore and blackthorn have all done well.
Previously recognized families of Aceraceae (maples) and Hippocastanaceae (horse chestnuts) have been shown to be closely related temperate offshoots from within the largely tropical Sapindaceae.
The house sits on a street lined with maple trees, where horse-drawn carriages, which serve as taxis in Taloqan, continually clop past.
All the maple, willow, elms, poplar, horse chestnut, ash.
The news comes only weeks after New Jersey declared victory in its war on the beetle, which destroys maple, ash, birch, elm, horse chestnut, willow and other hardwoods.
