Michigan DNR encouraging residents to keep an eye out for invasive beetle

“What happens is the beetles themselves, once that female lays the little egg in the little depression, then the little larvae, once it hatches, tunnel into the tree and they end up going in the tree so deep and so far that not only do conventional pesticides, insecticides not reach all of the tree, but also all of that damage and removal of that wood weakens the tree itself,” said Nelson…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/environment-climate-change/2026-08-10/michigan-dnr-encouraging-residents-to-keep-an-eye-out-for-invasive-beetle