Emerald Ash Borer News

EAB Found in West Virginia - The emerald ash borer (EAB) was found in Fayette County West Virginia in October 2007. According to state officials in West Virginia, an emerald ash borer larva was discovered in a "trap tree" that had been prepared by the state Department of Agriculture's Plant Industries Division to survey for this wood-boring beetle. Finding the EAB so far south in Fayette County, West Virginia was something of a surprise, and led forestry officials to suspect that this pest arrived in firewood brought in from an infested state by someone camping, fishing, or rafting in the New River Gorge area.