How to Use emerald ash borer in a Sentence

emerald ash borer

noun
  • Can the emerald ash borer be stopped?
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Thanks for your question and for keeping an eye out for the emerald ash borer.
    — Kym Pokorny, oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The killer is a shiny green insect from Asia called the emerald ash borer.
    — Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
  • Now emerald ash borer is killing millions of native ash trees.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 9 Aug. 2025
  • Not every dying ash tree is the result of the emerald ash borer.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Hundreds of ash have toppled over in these woods because of the emerald ash borer.
    — Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
  • McNee said one of the main ways emerald ash borer spreads is on firewood.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Avoid any kind of ash, which will be vulnerable to the emerald ash borer.
    — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • An emerald ash borer will be represented as well, the bug that killed this ash tree.
    — Jeffrey F. Bill, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2024
  • An iridescent green beetle called the emerald ash borer has laid waste to ash trees.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Wired, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Then the emerald ash borer, a shiny green invasive insect, came to town.
    — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 14 June 2018
  • Broomfield has confirmed emerald ash borer in the city even though foresters have tried to prevent its spread.
    — Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The emerald ash borer is capable of travelling a half-mile each year on its own.
    — John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 19 June 2020
  • One way to prevent emerald ash borer spread is to use buy and burn firewood locally.
    — Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2023
  • The species has been threatened by the invasive emerald ash borer, a beetle that feeds on ash trees.
    — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The emerald ash borer is a wood-boring beetle native to Asia.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2022
  • An insect, the emerald ash borer, killed ash trees there, and storms have caused trees to fall into the river from time to time.
    — Tim Zorn, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The center aims to fight the state’s worst invaders, from emerald ash borer beetles to buckthorn.
    — Bob Shaw, Twin Cities, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Oak wilt and the emerald ash borer continue to spread farther across the state, leaving dead oak and ash in their wake.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
  • And other threats, like Dutch elm disease and the emerald ash borer, also plague the forests.
    — Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Wierema said with the emerald ash borer beetle, when the signs of stress appear there is little to be done to help the tree.
    — Steve Sadin, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Fortunately, mountain ash is not a true ash tree and therefore is not a host for the emerald ash borer.
    — Kym Pokorny, oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2022
  • In recent years, researchers have released wasps in forests in 30 states where the emerald ash borer is present.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The emerald ash borer is also threatening green ash trees, one of the more abundant species in the floodplain.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2022
  • The fungi follows the emerald ash borer into trees through the wounds the beetle creates.
    — Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The despised ash trees had to be cut down as the emerald ash borer laid waste to the cultivar across the Midwest.
    — Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 28 June 2018
  • Some cities and towns are cutting down the trees to prevent the spread of the emerald ash borer and eliminate the cost of treatment.
    — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The emerald ash borer, radiant and misplaced, has killed all the ash, so what to do but fell it and watch its bark fall off like meat from the bone.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
  • The emerald ash borer is a beetle that came to the area on shipping crates from foreign countries, Scott said.
    — Mary McIntyre, Lake County News-Sun, 14 June 2019
  • Unfortunately, ash trees are now at risk due to the emerald ash borer, a pest that kills them in certain regions.
    — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 5 Mar. 2026

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