ALB Newsletter, Vol. 1, Issue 3

Issue 3 of the ALB Newsletter, with the latest Asian longhorned beetle news, links, events and volunteer opportunities in Massachusetts, is available here. If you would like to subscribe to this weekly newsletter, you can sign up for this and other pest alerts here.

ALB Lookalikes

Massachusetts is home to many insects that could be confused with the invasive Asian longhorned beetle, including several native longhorned beetle species. See if you can recognize the Asian longhorned beetles in the image below (click on the image to view it large):


The "Find the Asian Longhorned Beetle!" quiz is available as a high-resolution print. Use it as a single sheet, or cut out the individual squares to use for group identification activities. The answers to the quiz can be found here.

Some of the images above are actual photos sent in by Massachusetts citizens concerned that they had spotted ALB. We are grateful to the following people for allowing their photos to be used in this project: Todd Pearson, smcann, Greg Shuler, Ralph Hebert, Natasha Wright and Troy Bartlett. If you think you have seen Asian longhorned beetle, you can report it here.

ALB Newsletter, Vol. 1, Issue 2

Issue 2 of the ALB Newsletter, with the the latest Asian longhorned beetle news, links, events and volunteer opportunities in Massachusetts, is available here. If you would like to subscribe to this weekly newsletter, you can sign up for this and other pest alerts here.

2009 CAPS Pest List

The Massachusetts Introduced Pests Outreach Project is part of the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS), a partnership between all 50 states and the USDA to detect and monitor exotic pests, pathogens and weeds. Each fall, the Massachusetts CAPS Committee, with members from the Mass. Department of Agricultural Resources, USDA APHIS-PPQ, UMass Extension, and non-governmental organizations with a stake in the state's agricultural resources, meets in order to decide which pests will be the focus of the next year's survey and outreach efforts. The 2009 CAPS pest list for Massachusetts is below, with species ranked in order of importance. Over the next couple of months we will add fact sheets for any species that does not already have one.

Rank	Scientific Name	Common Name	Organism Type
1	Phytophthora ramorum	Sudden oak death, Ramorum blight	pathogen
2	Anoplophora glabripennis	Asian longhorned beetle	insect
3	Agrilus planipennis	Emerald ash borer	insect
4	Epiphyas postvittana	Light brown apple moth	insect
5	Potyvirus	Plum Pox Virus, PPV	pathogen
6	Puccinia horiana	Chrysanthemum white rust	pathogen
7	Adoxophyes orana	Summer fruit tortrix moth	insect
8	Anoplophora chinensis	Rough shouldered longhorned beetle, Citrus longhorned beetle	insect
9	Monochamus alternatus	Japanese pine sawyer	insect
10	Lobesia botrana	European grape vine moth	insect
11	Lymantria dispar (Asian strain)	Asian gypsy moth	insect
12	Lymantria mathura	Pink gypsy moth	insect
13	Spodoptera litura	Cotton cutworm	insect
14	Spodoptera littoralis	Egyptian cottonworm	insect
15	Puccinia hemerocallidis	Daylily rust	pathogen
16	Globodera rostochiensis	Golden nematode	nematode
17	Globodera pallida	Potato cyst nematode	nematode
18	Polygonum perfoliatum	Mile-a-minute vine	plant
19	Heracleum mantegazzianum	Giant hogweed	plant
20	Orobanche cernua, other non-native Orobanche spp.	Nodding broomrape	plant
21	Lepidium latifolium	Perennial pepperweed	plant

ALB Newsletter, Vol. 1, Issue 1

The first issue of the ALB Newsletter, which provides information about the latest Asian longhorned beetle news, links, events and volunteer opportunities in Massachusetts, is available here. If you would like to subscribe to this weekly newsletter, you can sign up for this and other pest alerts here.