Talk:Emerald ash borer infestation

Infestation might not be the best word for teaching the uninformed about the effects of this North America & Western Russia invasive EAB event. People think " Once my tree is "Infested" it is too late to save it because the borers are in to stay." What really happens is EAB vacates everyones tree's to mate, then a new generation is allowed to enter and "re-infest" tree. I guess what should be said than is "The Emerald Ash Borer re-infests Ash trees every year"! Or "Ash trees get re-infested again by EAB each summer". "Your Ash only starts to show signs of EAB damage after getting re-infested four or five years in a row with ever increasing populations of new Borers"! "Your lucky, your tree has survived and healed from each EAB infestation for three or four years in a row now, nice"! One word that has no use for describing effects of EAB is "Infected"! My Ash is "infected" with a "disease" from that Emerald Ash Borer." "When the men cut my Ash tree down, their expert showed me where the "inside" heartwood was all hollowed out from the Borer". Really? Doh!CHICAGOCONCERTMAN (talk) 06:51, 16 June 2013 (UTC)


 * A little late response, but your comments bear some pointing out. It sounds like you have a couple misunderstandings about EAB and entomology in general. The tree isn't "re-infested" because there will always be larvae in the tree at any given time. Even without that, even the adults will be present on the tree when they emerge and will lay eggs on the tree. The tree is perpetually infested in that case, and entomologists do not use the term re-infestation for this kind of case. As for your disease comment, I'm not sure where you're going with that. EAB doesn't attack the heartwood, so it would stand to reason that there would be some disease doing that whether related or not. Either way, it doesn't sound like you're suggesting specific edits here, rather more on the rant side instead, so if you have some concise changes to make that are based on entomological convention feel free to suggest them. Kingofaces43 (talk) 17:21, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

Avoid Regionalism
In the section "Wake of destruction" the discussion is made specific to American states including Michigan. Meanwhile the infestation is also taking place in the Canadian province of Ontario which is separated from Michigan by only a river in large portions. There is no reason to localize an event that does not recognize borders. The man made artificial division in the article distorts the information.

How-to tag
This article was tagged for having too much instructional content. This mostly appears to be due to some of the insecticide sections. A lot of the information in these sections should either be summarized or removed to match ecyclopedic standards. Essentially, a lot of the information in those sections is only relevant to pesticide applicators and not to a general audience. I'm going to make some changes to these sections to address the how-to content, but since it looks like a bit of work has gone into these sections I'm adding this talk section in case there are any additional thoughts on how to handle the section. Kingofaces43 (talk) 19:32, 8 March 2014 (UTC)