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Green Menace

  • May 17, 2015
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Native to Asia and eastern Russia, the emerald ash borer is a destructive invasive species in North America, where its larvae devour the inner bark of ash trees. Since 2002, when they first showed up in North America, these beetles have killed tens of millions of trees in the U.S. and Canada. (Photo via uky.edu)

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