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The Asian Longhorned Beetle May Be On Its Way

By Mark Bevis on Wednesday, August 27, 2008.

The State of New Hampshire is on the lookout for a serious tree killer.

We're not talking about the wooly adelgid here.

This new danger is called the Asian Longhorned Beetle.

And Kyle Lombard rates its threat level right up there with dutch elm disease and chestnut blight.

Lombard studies forest insects and diseases for the Division of Forest and Lands.

He tells NHPR's Mark Bevis that this beetle recently showed up just south of the border in Worcester, Massachusetts.