Emerald Ash Borer Adult

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture announced on Tuesday, July 27th the first detection of emerald ash borer in the State of Tennessee. This discovery was made the week of July 19th at a truck stop in Knox County near the Loudon County line.

Read the official news release by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture. The current status of positive finds of EAB in the U.S. can be seen on the APHIS quarantine map. ASETS is currently cooperating in a multi-partner effort to research the slowing the spread of EAB in the U.S. Visit the SLAM project website at http://www.slameab.info.

Below is a map showing the location of Knox County. The find here is interesting due to the fact that it seems to be disconnected from the larger EAB population. The next closest positive EAB finds have been in north central Kentucky and south central West Virginia.

Knox County, Tennessee

• New York State Emerald Ash Borer Detection
• Hopeful Emerald Ash Borer News
• emeraldashborer: Chicago Emerald Ash Borer Central: Spring 2011: EAB News: http://t.co/H6L1D2k

Users are able to select a single species from the “View Species” widget. As you can see in the screen capture above this will in turn display all observations for the selected species. Users are also able to explore the map through zoom and pan tools, as well as, flipping between the street map and imagery data backgrounds (street map displayed).

An Identify tool is available for accessing the attributes associated with the observation and an address locate tool is also available.

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