With the ash borer present in 63 of Ohio's 88 counties...GO WASPS!!! http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...15/sci-emerald-ash-borer-art0-gb3i5iq9-1.html
Update on the sad situation of ash trees in central Ohio: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/05/05/tree-slayer.html
Next: woodpecker infestation! Toledo, OH, location of the most intense borer coverage, is experiencing a stunning increase in woodpecker populations: from 2002 to 2011, a 245% surge in downy and red-bellied, and 300% more white-breasted nuthatches! http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...ing-on-ash-trees-a-feast-for-woodpeckers.html
Professor Don Cipollini, of Wright State University (Dayton, OH), has discovered that the emerald ash borer is using the White Fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus) as a host: http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...may-be-infesting-on-another-type-of-tree.html (Ignore the awful 'infesting on' usage. Headline in newspaper, the PAPER sp., reads 'Biologist finds ash borer in new tree'. Perhaps the online transcriber was thinking of 'feasting on'.)
Something different: a positive and hopeful story. http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...0/fruit-trees-thriving-in-place-of-ashes.html
17,000 ash trees removed in Columbus since 2011, at a cost of $4.5 million. Ohio Department of Agriculture estimates that there are 3.8 billion ash trees in the state. http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/04/08/and-another-ash-tree-falls.html