We have been told repeatedly that the Asian longhorn beetle is immune to pesticides, and we are helpless to fight it until the cold weather sets in.
Suppose we have city workers walk through the infested neighborhoods, pull the beetles off the trees, and step on them (or use some similar method to kill them). This would obviously not completely solve the problem. But it would reduce the breeding population of the beetles, reduce the number of beetles who could attack and kill our trees, and reduce the number of beetles that could possibly escape the quarantine zones. It also would give us a sense of empowerment that we can fight back and not just sit back and watch ever-widening quarantine zones and hope that cold weather arrives while we still have some trees left.
Let’s take the offensive in any way that we can to save our city.
