This is just another veiled propaganda that pretends to be popular science. 1. This species originated in Northeast Asia and is widely distributed in Siberia, Russia, Northeast China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan. Looking at the entire Internet, there is no evidence that the invasive species in the United States came from China. 2. Any pallets exported need to be fumigated and disinfected, which will kill any parasites in the wood. 3. The emerald ash borer parasitizes ash wood, which is a more expensive wood with higher economic value. Chinese pallets are usually made of pine, fir, and other miscellaneous hardwoods. No fool would use ash wood to make pallets.
I would assume that China is applying the UN regulations for heat treatment on imported pallets. If the US does not want to follow UN regulations then the regulations will not be followed.
Same here in SA. English Oak thrived for 300 years - now some alien aphid infestation has blighted these magnificent trees with stunted growth and a sticky substance that literally drips off the trees and becomes a black powder at the end of the growing season. Many just give up the fight and die. Nobody appears to know what's happening or has any remedy. Shocked to hear about the American ash which would be PURE GOLD timber in SA aside from the magnificence and durability of the tree itself. This is a SCANDAL and requires STRICT POLICING if NOT TOO LATE. Australia has been doing this for years. Wilful neglect appears to be a big problem with the cost of rehabilitation being prohibitive and largely unsuccessful. Prevention by all means is FAR better than being forced to formulate a solution. Thank you for highlighting the issue - what actually gets done might well be too little, too late. Sure hope NOT.
I was part of a reforestation program over 30 years ago and a lot of the trees we planted along the Mississippi flood plain was Ash. Maybe it will help the woodpeckers.
Back in the 1990s the pine bark beetle killed pines from California to the Carolinas. The Southern Yellow Pines were almost wiped out in Kentucky. This was a multibillion dollar loss .
Here in the midwest... those bugs RAVAGED the forests about 10 years ago. Every ash tree... thinned the forests by about half! There was more firewood ten years ago than what we could possibly cut... mounding higher than our machines could reach by pushing into the piles of wood staked in groups the size of a small ranch home. These mounds of trees / firewood were all over amish country and rural farms for burning / heating. Even today the woods have not thickened to their former glory.
Same here in New Hampshire and vt,ash were dying everywhere and even the red oaks were starting to in vt four + years ago. I logged timber in both states for 45 years and never saw anything like it,some forest almost looked like napalm hit it .
I have lost hundreds of trees on my property because of the Ash borer. I have noticed they only attacked trees on my property with the diameter larger than 2 inches.
@qroadside ash trees are edible... they're used for a large array of reasons as well. You can burn it for a fire, create things from the wood, and it's a source of food itself. The more you know! 😊
Our infestation here in Philly seems to be subsiding after a few years. I let my grape vines grow back and they started producing fruit again. I'm guessing that birds figured out they're edible.
You do realize, do you not, that lumber, firewood and ornamental trees are all corporate interests? If it was just about profit, this wouldn't have happened. Somebody made a mistake
Maybe Robert Kennedy, Jr will see it differently or whoever would be in charge in the Trump Admin that would call out Corp. America! We can only hope and pray!
At about 11:15, you state that the U.S. received "multiple introductions from Asia, not just one." Then, at about 13:10, you state that "a single shipping container from Asia carrying the beetles changed American forests forever." Well, which is it? Did the U.S. receive "multiple introductions" or "a single shipping container" with these beetles ???
@@scottmercier352Heat treating started after the problem was discovered. In many cases too little too late. Then there is the issue of people falsely claiming a pallet is heat treated. After all, it costs money to heat treat them.
It’s been here in Canada for a long time particularly in Ontario where many ash trees along streets line were dead and being cut down to prevent spreading that’s why we don’t have beautiful fall leaves of ash trees !
This is so interesting! I recognized this bug from my college years and said, “yuck I hate that bug!”. I saw these bugs all over West Michigan 2001-2005, and they were pests. I never collected them as a child in my bug box, so it’s very interesting I was witnessing their coming to the US. Thanks for this info, I learned a lot from your video! ❤🌳
I spent a lot of time in Ontario, straight north of Lake Superior and except for a long the edge of the lake, there really aren't a lot of ash trees up there. I practically grew up on one Lake and I had never seen an ash tree up there, occasional Mountain Ash with the flowers but not the regular white ash that we have here in Wisconsin, nor black ash. But 15 years ago we were on the very south end of the lake right where it turns into a river and a rapid and I was stunned I saw my first Ash. I can only figure that the location there must have been a little warmer. I traveled along the shores by boat May to November, cross country through the forest and definitely along the many many miles of logging roads and that was my first regular ash tree in over 50 years of fishing trips and hunting trips! Right now, Ontario, minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin all have the Birch borer, you travel up north they have mile after mile along the highways just decimated with broken off birch trees! I live in eastern Wisconsin in Door County, and my father and I were the first people in Wisconsin to report the new Beach scale which is killing Beech trees. We called our Forester to tell him what we found, and they said well that sounds like beach scale but we don't have that in Wisconsin?! Well they came out just to be on the safe side, Wisconsin has Beach scale!😢😢😢
@@DavidJones-me7yr Its not good. Out here in BC, we have lost country sized forests, to the pine beetle, and forest fires. The white birch are almost all gone. A lot of the cedars are having trouble, with longer summers. I'm just an old guy who likes to hike. So who knows what the foresters are seeing?
@@billpetersen298 I haven't traveled in western Canada since 1982. Took the Alcan Highway to Alaska and we met up with some cousins that lived in Leduc Alberta. When we came back we took a slightly different Road and we nipped the northeast corner of British Columbia, I'd have to get the map out again to remember any of the roads. What I do remember is one spot must have been way high elevation and hot, of course the whole trip was hot that year 105 f in Anchorage I think? Do you know where the Birch borer came from? It seems like everything is coming from China, I guess that could have been just one of the first ones? I've only done a little actual hiking, but that's only because I walk so much in my daily life, that any vacation I want to sit down for a while. Farmer main thing second maple syrup operation, at one time tapping up to $7,000 taps with pails! I end up spending so much time out in the woods that we don't miss much, plus we sell firewood. It was doing that that we had found beech tree scale, which is just something freaky! During the summer they fly around to the beach trees and although I think they can fly, they also seem to float through the air? It's a tiny bug with like a piece of white cotton for a tail, when they are stuck into a branch their tails are waving back and forth side to side in unison! Then later on, that tail must die off and stick to the side of the tree, which makes it look like something scaly? Our birch trees started dying here probably 15 maybe 20 years ago, but turned really bad in the last 10. If you see some dead limbs on a tree, you might as well cut it down, because by the following year it will probably not be a green leaf on it and the following year after that it will be completely rotten. Do you have a lot of ash trees in your area? It'll probably depend on how close you are to the coast? I almost came hunting out in British Columbia, not far from the town of Prince George, in the middle of the province but in the lower one third of it. I was injured back at the end of 2016 and today I can barely walk. Tomorrow morning there is actually a bonus season for Whitetail does,, good chance I won't even be able to go out. I was already hurt back when I was communicating with somebody from out there but I could still get around halfway decent, today just driving out there would be a challenge. I turned 60 this year and in some ways I'm not getting around as good as my dad is, and he's 96!
@@DavidJones-me7yr Hi David, Sounds like you need to start living like the old man. I lost my step dad at 96, only after mom went. Sorry, I don't have lots of time to chat. My career path went, to self employed contractor. So it's work till the clock runs out. Wife's calling, have to go.
No it isn't! The Communist biggest tool is propaganda. It's a form of "Soft Power." It's a very sneaky Military tactic of the C.C.P. Destroying America from "within." Now just image the insects were able to attack and wipeout our crops! Good buy America.
HW Bush signed all the trade deals in 91-92. Conservatives don't learn history in their homeschools and crap red state public schools. Or worse, Private, learn Jesus and Fake economics.
..by the way..here in Australia customer will not allow imports using untreated wood as pallets or packaging. I found that out back in 2003 when I imported big pottery pots from Thailand ..20 years ago.
Shipping is too inexpensive. Better to have smaller factories all over the world fostering local business and better resiliency. This practice of one huge factory in China producing everything the world needs because of cheap shipping and cheap labor is crazy.
I am trying to separate truth from intentional fear mongering/psyop. I remember when the Asian jumping carp were spotted in the Missouri River. There was panic to keep them out of the great lakes . The claim was that this breed of carp would decimate the fish population. There's no follow up stories many years later and still other breeds of fish in the Missouri.
A friend of mine has a 10 acre forest. 471 ash trees have died on the property from the emerald ash beetle, that's almost 50 trees per ACRE. If you want to know what that looks like, come visit. It's not fear mongering, just like losing the chestnut and the elm trees. Many, many, many billions of dollars have been taken from our economy because of sloppy controls of importation. If you are ignorant of that, look it up.
@justanamerican9024 until this report and several eyewitness accounts I was completely ignorant of this invasive species. My apologies. I am forever a skeptic in this modern era of deception until I have done my due diligence. Though the damage that has already occurred is devastating it is good to hear that progress is being made in combating the problem.
From CHINA all the way to a state located almost in the middle of the country 🤣🤣 Next will be a mosquito flying all the way from China to Colorado or something...🤣🤣
It doesn't make any sense how this video explains the forests are being destroyed by China with battles traveling in wood pallets thru our ports and harbors as well as by flights. How does a big invade our country when the wood should be heat treated? Doesn't the heat treatment kill everything in the wood. And if so these Asian bug can withstand the hest treatment while in an incubation stage "egg" then why isn't this country and far beyond advanced in preventing problems like these. There are so many lists of problems that have to do with our country. Where are the solutions?
@ completely insane. The real reason used beetles 🪲 as excuse I believe. Widening roads and shrinking footpaths was more likely real reason for the destruction of the ash.
I'm seeing what comes next, all ashes dead here, and as they die out, the cottonwood tree has started moving in, both very fast growing trees. Cottonwood has this fire thing though, flaming fluff. They also get a lot bigger. The only ashes I see surviving are the ones people have tried to kill, and kept regenerating. So, the mangled fence and garage alley trees
In 2012, Asian Longhorn Beetle was spotted just down the road from me here in England in an area where lots of pallets arrive from overseas. Luckily they were noticed quickly and were successfully eradicated by felling all trees within a small radius and climbing and inspecting all trees within a wider radius. That's the only outbreak of them we've had here in the UK... for now.
On your map at 1:10, it ooks like the Ash Borer Beetles ate the whole state of Tennessee which then caused Kentucy to rest on Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, etc. The Mid-Atlantic states seem a little out of shape too. Where are you located?
The emerald ash bore is how my beautiful heritage town lost all of its trees downtown. Our beauty drew in tourists, so it has impacted businesses such as our wedding industry.
I wonder, if Australia knows about this? Since we are importing soo many pallets from china. I wonder, if they are responsible for the sickness and deaths of our eucalypt trees?
Recently (2024) “Golden Mussels” have been found in the San Joaquin River CA said to have come from overseas shipping dumping ballast water. These mussels are small and can restrict water pumping and marine cooling systems.
I saw those Beatles here in Oregon back in early spring (2024). I've never seen them before, but I thought they looked pretty cool. I didn't know they were invasive.
@@randumdude5824 Yes well we all make mistakes. But we also have the ability to make good. Be that on a social, environmental or any level. Good luck out there.
I live in SE Ohio on 20 acres of woods. They have killed dozens of my Ash trees, I think every one is dead. I have cut some for fire wood, but most just rot in place. American Chestnut 60 years ago got nearly wiped out, and many evergreens are attacked by Bark Beetles.
This is exactly what has been fueling our big California forest fires for the same amount of years ! Too many trees killed by these bugs ! We lost trees that fell on our car & home. 😢
Nature never ceases to amaze. Who would have guessed trees could communicate with each other? The wasps are interesting. There is always ways to combat invasive species.
Hi power frequency generator can explode the insects via the frequencies and of Tesla's sweet spot resonance theory. we have the technology ! It's a matter of finding out the correct frequency in a lab . I have low power ones that kill tumors and bacteria and viruses.
Even if they did it on purpose which was not proven, what was the dept. of Agriculture doing? If other less advanced countries could protect their forests, why can't the US?
In north and west Europe the ashes too are dying. This time the culprit is a fungus from Asia, “Chalara fraxinea” which kills the trees from the top down, starting with the leaves. Evert pay 9 out of 10 trees are infected and will die. There is not much to be done at the moment to stop the fungus from spreading although about 10% of the trees are immune to this fungus.
When this a ash die-back was noticed here in the UK several years ago, the blame was put on tree nurseries importing trees from Europe (probably because it was cheaper than growing their own). but here in Devon I have ash trees growing like weeds, and all the large trees are fine. BTW also have elm, some quite large, which was supposed to have died out...
Think about that. In US you cant carry firewood from one county or area to another but they're allowing cut wood pallets in from overseas. Ignorance is just plain stupid when it comes to government policy.
The company i use to work at would receive ceramic blocks in a wooden crate from Germany for emission controls ,we had to build new crates to send them to China because they wouldn't take crates made in Germany. China sent a contaminated crate a few years ago with the spotted lattern fly to Pennsylvania now they are spreading across the area
In Belgium we also a lot of ash trees dying around 2010 but it seems like it is slowing down. There are trees that only have some dead branches which seem to recover and others that have no damage at all.
Yep. The majority of the south corner of our land is forested in ash. It's all deadwood and brush now. Every windy day you can listen to trees and limbs falling.
Pallets are supposed to be subjected heat treatment to kill insects, etc before use. China says if you can cheat, then cheat !! Customs need a huge increase in personnel to handle all the imports that come in daily.
Here in south florida ice been watching my pine trees go down one at a time. Lost 4 in my yard in two years from pine borer beetles. 3 others are showing signs.
I was told to not use the traps , because it draws all the Beatles from miles away straight to your property , although it may kill some it’s not worth the risk.
These gemstone like bettles are used by ancient people to make jewelery. Only luxury brands use them these days, But this is a Good opportunity for getting more people to go bug hunting.
The Lantern fly came to Pa from Chinese decorative stone material I believe. They are causing damage here and spreading. It’s disastrous for grape growing regions
In CT. I've lost just about every ash tree on my property as did the neighbors. Ct.'s forests look like the fall from aerial photos with large plots of land having dead trees from the beetles.
Customs are too strict with passengers bringing goods but do no inspection of pallets??? How is it possible? Nobody is doing anything?
cause they cut costs by removing the number of inspectors
Bazillions of pallets shifted around globally every day. Could _you_ inspect them all?
In Australia, we have quarantine for everything. Those pallets were not have made it through if they were going through the Australian quadrantine!
Plastic pallots
@Laszlo34
That's an argument against the massive amount of global trade we have.
Mighty strange anything wood shipping to China requires special treatment that kills all pests. Another one way street. 4:06
Just like China banned fruits from the Philippines.
This is just another veiled propaganda that pretends to be popular science.
1. This species originated in Northeast Asia and is widely distributed in Siberia, Russia, Northeast China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan. Looking at the entire Internet, there is no evidence that the invasive species in the United States came from China.
2. Any pallets exported need to be fumigated and disinfected, which will kill any parasites in the wood.
3. The emerald ash borer parasitizes ash wood, which is a more expensive wood with higher economic value. Chinese pallets are usually made of pine, fir, and other miscellaneous hardwoods. No fool would use ash wood to make pallets.
We could enact the same regulation
I would assume that China is applying the UN regulations for heat treatment on imported pallets. If the US does not want to follow UN regulations then the regulations will not be followed.
@@johnclements6614 Right. I suppose that the easiest (and cheapest) route is to ignore climate change and the constant threat of invasive species.
Same here in SA. English Oak thrived for 300 years - now some alien aphid infestation has blighted these magnificent trees with stunted growth and a sticky substance that literally drips off the trees and becomes a black powder at the end of the growing season. Many just give up the fight and die. Nobody appears to know what's happening or has any remedy. Shocked to hear about the American ash which would be PURE GOLD timber in SA aside from the magnificence and durability of the tree itself. This is a SCANDAL and requires STRICT POLICING if NOT TOO LATE. Australia has been doing this for years. Wilful neglect appears to be a big problem with the cost of rehabilitation being prohibitive and largely unsuccessful. Prevention by all means is FAR better than being forced to formulate a solution. Thank you for highlighting the issue - what actually gets done might well be too little, too late. Sure hope NOT.
Oak scale insects?
One of the consequences of global trade.
Woodpeckers rock!
I hate woodpeckers
One pecked away part of the trim of one of my windows in the 1980s. It was eating baby spiders that were on it.
I was part of a reforestation program over 30 years ago and a lot of the trees we planted along the Mississippi flood plain was Ash. Maybe it will help the woodpeckers.
💯🎯
They are a sign that something is wrong with the tree when they show up, every time I see one and start paying attention to the tree
Back in the 1990s the pine bark beetle killed pines from California to the Carolinas. The Southern Yellow Pines were almost wiped out in Kentucky. This was a multibillion dollar loss .
As Trump says, no skin off my ace.
This impacted hundreds of pine trees on my property and all around Lake Lanier in Georgia.
" introducing a disease to a population that has no immunity", The irony.
Oh yeah, like when they did it with covid.
Nope it was introduced by european settler to the native American
@@Lana-xd7eywhat was?
@@chupacabra304
Just research it without me telling you
@@chupacabra304Lot of smallpox. Educate yourself.
Here in the midwest... those bugs RAVAGED the forests about 10 years ago. Every ash tree... thinned the forests by about half! There was more firewood ten years ago than what we could possibly cut... mounding higher than our machines could reach by pushing into the piles of wood staked in groups the size of a small ranch home. These mounds of trees / firewood were all over amish country and rural farms for burning / heating. Even today the woods have not thickened to their former glory.
Same here in New Hampshire and vt,ash were dying everywhere and even the red oaks were starting to in vt four + years ago. I logged timber in both states for 45 years and never saw anything like it,some forest almost looked like napalm hit it .
The English Beatles were first invaders of America..
I have lost hundreds of trees on my property because of the Ash borer. I have noticed they only attacked trees on my property with the diameter larger than 2 inches.
There is something Mt dad hammered to the outside of trunk. HIS TREES were fine. In Montana! That happened. You can see it from the air. Its insane
@ I have about 3 1/2 chords cut and split. And probably 10 to 15 cords just in log stacked.
Indulge in monoculture instead of biodiversity and then spar with nature.
You should plant fruit trees and feed the needy people in your community. What did you need 100’s of useless ash trees for anyway.
@qroadside ash trees are edible... they're used for a large array of reasons as well. You can burn it for a fire, create things from the wood, and it's a source of food itself. The more you know! 😊
We pay millions of dollars each year for the Department of Agriculture. They should be inspecting for this stuff. More bilking of tax payers dollars.
Maybe not enough funding.
i don't recall if it mentioned what was on the infected pallets-why would the Dept of Agriculture inspect a shipment of shoes?
@@2Question-EverythingTo see if the cows the leather came from was wormy? 😂😂
The department of ag doest deal with that stuff. That would fall under the DNR.
Seems like many organizations and companies do very little to help us and the environment all they seem to do is just taking the money
Spotted lantern flies are the next big one headed your way. I personally witnessed billions of them from Virginia up through Vermont.
Our infestation here in Philly seems to be subsiding after a few years. I let my grape vines grow back and they started producing fruit again. I'm guessing that birds figured out they're edible.
As usual, it is easier to blame China than to question the people in charge of customs and quarantine.
It doesn't matter what we do because companies will always put profits first and there's no profit in saving the trees for big corporate.
You do realize, do you not, that lumber, firewood and ornamental trees are all corporate interests? If it was just about profit, this wouldn't have happened. Somebody made a mistake
100%!,
Oh Shut up comunist....
Maybe Robert Kennedy, Jr will see it differently or whoever would be in charge in the Trump Admin that would call out Corp. America! We can only hope and pray!
At about 11:15, you state that the U.S. received "multiple introductions from Asia, not just one."
Then, at about 13:10, you state that "a single shipping container from Asia carrying the beetles changed American forests forever."
Well, which is it? Did the U.S. receive "multiple introductions" or "a single shipping container" with these beetles ???
All wooden pallets used in shipments need to have fumigation certificates.
Just one more piece of paper to forge.
The Chinese would lie about it. They lie about everything. China is evil.
The wood is heat treated. Nothing is living in that wood. The story is a mix of truth and bullsheet.
@@SlickArmorThere is a saying in China . . . "If you can cheat, cheat ".
@@scottmercier352Heat treating started after the problem was discovered. In many cases too little too late. Then there is the issue of people falsely claiming a pallet is heat treated. After all, it costs money to heat treat them.
It’s been here in Canada for a long time particularly in Ontario where many ash trees along streets line were dead and being cut down to prevent spreading that’s why we don’t have beautiful fall leaves of ash trees !
Well kiss my ash.
This is so interesting! I recognized this bug from my college years and said, “yuck I hate that bug!”. I saw these bugs all over West Michigan 2001-2005, and they were pests. I never collected them as a child in my bug box, so it’s very interesting I was witnessing their coming to the US. Thanks for this info, I learned a lot from your video! ❤🌳
I’m shocked at the map!
They didn’t cross the border, into Canada?
I spent a lot of time in Ontario, straight north of Lake Superior and except for a long the edge of the lake, there really aren't a lot of ash trees up there. I practically grew up on one Lake and I had never seen an ash tree up there, occasional Mountain Ash with the flowers but not the regular white ash that we have here in Wisconsin, nor black ash. But 15 years ago we were on the very south end of the lake right where it turns into a river and a rapid and I was stunned I saw my first Ash. I can only figure that the location there must have been a little warmer. I traveled along the shores by boat May to November, cross country through the forest and definitely along the many many miles of logging roads and that was my first regular ash tree in over 50 years of fishing trips and hunting trips! Right now, Ontario, minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin all have the Birch borer, you travel up north they have mile after mile along the highways just decimated with broken off birch trees! I live in eastern Wisconsin in Door County, and my father and I were the first people in Wisconsin to report the new Beach scale which is killing Beech trees. We called our Forester to tell him what we found, and they said well that sounds like beach scale but we don't have that in Wisconsin?! Well they came out just to be on the safe side, Wisconsin has Beach scale!😢😢😢
They don’t like Justin Trudeau
@@DavidJones-me7yr Its not good. Out here in BC, we have lost country sized forests, to the pine beetle, and forest fires. The white birch are almost all gone. A lot of the cedars are having trouble, with longer summers. I'm just an old guy who likes to hike. So who knows what the foresters are seeing?
@@billpetersen298 I haven't traveled in western Canada since 1982. Took the Alcan Highway to Alaska and we met up with some cousins that lived in Leduc Alberta. When we came back we took a slightly different Road and we nipped the northeast corner of British Columbia, I'd have to get the map out again to remember any of the roads. What I do remember is one spot must have been way high elevation and hot, of course the whole trip was hot that year 105 f in Anchorage I think? Do you know where the Birch borer came from? It seems like everything is coming from China, I guess that could have been just one of the first ones? I've only done a little actual hiking, but that's only because I walk so much in my daily life, that any vacation I want to sit down for a while. Farmer main thing second maple syrup operation, at one time tapping up to $7,000 taps with pails! I end up spending so much time out in the woods that we don't miss much, plus we sell firewood. It was doing that that we had found beech tree scale, which is just something freaky! During the summer they fly around to the beach trees and although I think they can fly, they also seem to float through the air? It's a tiny bug with like a piece of white cotton for a tail, when they are stuck into a branch their tails are waving back and forth side to side in unison! Then later on, that tail must die off and stick to the side of the tree, which makes it look like something scaly? Our birch trees started dying here probably 15 maybe 20 years ago, but turned really bad in the last 10. If you see some dead limbs on a tree, you might as well cut it down, because by the following year it will probably not be a green leaf on it and the following year after that it will be completely rotten. Do you have a lot of ash trees in your area? It'll probably depend on how close you are to the coast? I almost came hunting out in British Columbia, not far from the town of Prince George, in the middle of the province but in the lower one third of it. I was injured back at the end of 2016 and today I can barely walk. Tomorrow morning there is actually a bonus season for Whitetail does,, good chance I won't even be able to go out. I was already hurt back when I was communicating with somebody from out there but I could still get around halfway decent, today just driving out there would be a challenge. I turned 60 this year and in some ways I'm not getting around as good as my dad is, and he's 96!
@@DavidJones-me7yr Hi David, Sounds like you need to start living like the old man. I lost my step dad at 96, only after mom went.
Sorry, I don't have lots of time to chat. My career path went, to self employed contractor. So it's work till the clock runs out.
Wife's calling, have to go.
This is why movement of wood to and from forests is restricted.
That's not by accident.
No it isn't! The Communist biggest tool is propaganda. It's a form of "Soft Power." It's a very sneaky Military tactic of the C.C.P. Destroying America from "within." Now just image the insects were able to attack and wipeout our crops! Good buy America.
You are right. Done on purpose for sure.
Kinda like your mom drinking while pregnant.
*THANKS AGAIN CLINTONS!!!*
HW Bush signed all the trade deals in 91-92. Conservatives don't learn history in their homeschools and crap red state public schools. Or worse, Private, learn Jesus and Fake economics.
REMEMBER AMERICANS LIKE CHEAP STUFF. HE
nixon opened trade with china
..by the way..here in Australia customer will not allow imports using untreated wood as pallets or packaging. I found that out back in 2003 when I imported big pottery pots from Thailand ..20 years ago.
Shipping is too inexpensive. Better to have smaller factories all over the world fostering local business and better resiliency. This practice of one huge factory in China producing everything the world needs because of cheap shipping and cheap labor is crazy.
I am trying to separate truth from intentional fear mongering/psyop. I remember when the Asian jumping carp were spotted in the Missouri River. There was panic to keep them out of the great lakes . The claim was that this breed of carp would decimate the fish population. There's no follow up stories many years later and still other breeds of fish in the Missouri.
A friend of mine has a 10 acre forest. 471 ash trees have died on the property from the emerald ash beetle, that's almost 50 trees per ACRE. If you want to know what that looks like, come visit. It's not fear mongering, just like losing the chestnut and the elm trees. Many, many, many billions of dollars have been taken from our economy because of sloppy controls of importation. If you are ignorant of that, look it up.
I have see the devastation these bugs bring. This is not fear mongering!
@justanamerican9024 until this report and several eyewitness accounts I was completely ignorant of this invasive species. My apologies. I am forever a skeptic in this modern era of deception until I have done my due diligence. Though the damage that has already occurred is devastating it is good to hear that progress is being made in combating the problem.
@@michaelkuhn3690You can witness the forest devastation from Google Earth historical images in a time lapse of sorts.
There's still an active battle to keep the carp put of lake Michigan, they have some sort of electric fence system that keeps them out
American Chestnut 2.0
American Chestnut are making a comeback, coming back from the roots of dead ones !
Many ash trees gone in my area (CT) in recent years. Now losing swaths of beech trees to a Japanese nematode.
And they really want us to think this is "accidental" ....it's ALWAYS on purpose
From CHINA all the way to a state located almost in the middle of the country 🤣🤣 Next will be a mosquito flying all the way from China to Colorado or something...🤣🤣
Not long ago plastic bags of seeds posted anon from China arrived in suburban letter boxes here in Australia.
Im 44 i grew up in deercreek ohio. The damage the larva creates was everywhere. This was the late 80's.
It doesn't make any sense how this video explains the forests are being destroyed by China with battles traveling in wood pallets thru our ports and harbors as well as by flights. How does a big invade our country when the wood should be heat treated? Doesn't the heat treatment kill everything in the wood. And if so these Asian bug can withstand the hest treatment while in an incubation stage "egg" then why isn't this country and far beyond advanced in preventing problems like these. There are so many lists of problems that have to do with our country. Where are the solutions?
Here in Australia all the ash were cut down in 1991-3 in case the beetles had invaded.
🤯that's insane and thank God they didn't use the same logic when COVID came around. 😵💫
@ completely insane. The real reason used beetles 🪲 as excuse I believe. Widening roads and shrinking footpaths was more likely real reason for the destruction of the ash.
I'm seeing what comes next, all ashes dead here, and as they die out, the cottonwood tree has started moving in, both very fast growing trees. Cottonwood has this fire thing though, flaming fluff. They also get a lot bigger. The only ashes I see surviving are the ones people have tried to kill, and kept regenerating. So, the mangled fence and garage alley trees
Decades too late. Where were you when the problem started. It is DONE.
2:03 so thats what those lines behind tree bark were, i've been seeing those in rural nh since i was little.
I came to this video to chill and eat bugs, and I'm all out of chill.
It’s not just an American problem; it’s been devastating our ash trees in Canada 🇨🇦 for decades now…..🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
So we introduced more invasives to battle it? We never learn.
In 2012, Asian Longhorn Beetle was spotted just down the road from me here in England in an area where lots of pallets arrive from overseas. Luckily they were noticed quickly and were successfully eradicated by felling all trees within a small radius and climbing and inspecting all trees within a wider radius. That's the only outbreak of them we've had here in the UK... for now.
1:17 Those borers sure do a good job of respecting property lines.
From China with love.
The pallets should be made of plastic or metal or manufactured products that do not house beetles ,easy fix
Now I know. I have land filled with Ash trees and they are dying. Yet. Will be replaced with fruit trees. Thanks.
How about the American chestnut the Chinese Chestnut fungus killed every American chestnut
It’s righty tighty lefty loosey when you are facing the bolt 😂😂😅
Reason Australian Customs are so gestapo when goods are imported into Australia.
Not just that.. pallet exports also termites.
wow your map is way off... @ 1:13 i noticed you didnt even include Tennessee on the map as the states were popping up.
The beatles are seeking asylum so you better leave them alone or you'll be arrested.
My brother-in-law in Ontario lost several trees due to these little bugs about ten years ago. He blamed Walmart.
Anything that has that metallic look gets my vote.
Frustrating because i found these on trees and thought they were so cool looking. I never realized how bad they are.
Polymer pallets are being used to solve the hitching a ride problem.
And yet they are asking me coming to US from Canada, if I have an orange or an apple.
On your map at 1:10, it ooks like the Ash Borer Beetles ate the whole state of Tennessee which then caused Kentucy to rest on Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, etc. The Mid-Atlantic states seem a little out of shape too. Where are you located?
The emerald ash bore is how my beautiful heritage town lost all of its trees downtown. Our beauty drew in tourists, so it has impacted businesses such as our wedding industry.
They are all over in Canada now!
Genetic engineering?! 🤔
If the bugs switch to maple trees we are really going to be screwed
This was a great watch but I also gotta call out the Chad GPT generated script.
😮 I’ve lost my grapefruit tree with all these little boring holes all over it, I wonder if it’s the same beetle.
I live in Australia
I wonder, if Australia knows about this? Since we are importing soo many pallets from china.
I wonder, if they are responsible for the sickness and deaths of our eucalypt trees?
Spotted lantern fly eats almost all fruit and vegetables the ash borer just eats ash trees.
Alaska had same issue back in the 90s,
Recently (2024) “Golden Mussels” have been found in the San Joaquin River CA said to have come from overseas shipping dumping ballast water. These mussels are small and can restrict water pumping and marine cooling systems.
I saw those Beatles here in Oregon back in early spring (2024). I've never seen them before, but I thought they looked pretty cool. I didn't know they were invasive.
Not at all unlike humans
I suppose you are exempt from this blanket accusation.
@ I know myself. And the things I’ve done. That’s why I said i what I said.
@@randumdude5824 Yes well we all make mistakes. But we also have the ability to make good. Be that on a social, environmental or any level.
Good luck out there.
There are plastic pallets you know... They have been around for years...
Thanks China! Again
you mean chinese mother nature?
Yes thanking China for the cheap stuff Americans like.
@MatthewMcFarlands Who was it that wanted cheap Chinese goods in mass quantity?
I highly doubt that those ash borer beetles came in on pallets. Those planks have been dried at very high temps.
Seems like the ash trees will eventually become immune after a time.
The ash weaving is beautiful 💚❤️
In Autralia we are getting bird feed full of foreign seeds that have taken over the lawns and fields.
So then bring some resistant trees from asia
@5:32 You left out oxygen in exchange for carbon dioxide...
I live in SE Ohio on 20 acres of woods. They have killed dozens of my Ash trees, I think every one is dead. I have cut some for fire wood, but most just rot in place. American Chestnut 60 years ago got nearly wiped out, and many evergreens are attacked by Bark Beetles.
They are also attacking Maple Trees and some evergreen trees.
"Devastated by the Beatles"... Its been a hard day's night.
Interesting , Thank You
This is exactly what has been fueling our big California forest fires for the same amount of years ! Too many trees killed by these bugs ! We lost trees that fell on our car & home. 😢
How could we expect this NOT to happen?
Nature never ceases to amaze. Who would have guessed trees could communicate with each other? The wasps are interesting. There is always ways to combat invasive species.
Hi power frequency generator can explode the insects via the frequencies and of Tesla's sweet spot resonance theory. we have the technology ! It's a matter of finding out the correct frequency in a lab . I have low power ones that kill tumors and bacteria and viruses.
I’m not convinced. Why other countries don’t have this problem?
The Chinese probably smuggled the bugs in and spread them throught the USA. Saying they were accidentally brought here is being nice
Even if they did it on purpose which was not proven, what was the dept. of Agriculture doing? If other less advanced countries could protect their forests, why can't the US?
The Chinese are ruthless enough to do things like that.
China should have too pay for it.
*China:* no thanks
*USA:* o..kay... 😶
Good luck with that. They don't even pick up their own tab for anything
In north and west Europe the ashes too are dying. This time the culprit is a fungus from Asia, “Chalara fraxinea” which kills the trees from the top down, starting with the leaves. Evert pay 9 out of 10 trees are infected and will die. There is not much to be done at the moment to stop the fungus from spreading although about 10% of the trees are immune to this fungus.
When this a ash die-back was noticed here in the UK several years ago, the blame was put on tree nurseries importing trees from Europe (probably because it was cheaper than growing their own). but here in Devon I have ash trees growing like weeds, and all the large trees are fine. BTW also have elm, some quite large, which was supposed to have died out...
and yet the answer is to ban my farm from selling firewood that hasn't been treated
Our forests in Idaho ,which consists of Pines, have been desimated by bark beatles ...
All those free pallets 😂 in the back of Walmart
Think about that. In US you cant carry firewood from one county or area to another but they're allowing cut wood pallets in from overseas. Ignorance is just plain stupid when it comes to government policy.
The company i use to work at would receive ceramic blocks in a wooden crate from Germany for emission controls ,we had to build new crates to send them to China because they wouldn't take crates made in Germany. China sent a contaminated crate a few years ago with the spotted lattern fly to Pennsylvania now they are spreading across the area
In Belgium we also a lot of ash trees dying around 2010 but it seems like it is slowing down. There are trees that only have some dead branches which seem to recover and others that have no damage at all.
We use treated wood when sending anything abroad from the UK. Not that we have any dodgy insects here.
Yep. The majority of the south corner of our land is forested in ash. It's all deadwood and brush now. Every windy day you can listen to trees and limbs falling.
Pallets are supposed to be subjected heat treatment to kill insects, etc before use. China says if you can cheat, then cheat !! Customs need a huge increase in personnel to handle all the imports that come in daily.
And people mock Australia and NZ for their strict quarantine ..... but this is why.
Here in south florida ice been watching my pine trees go down one at a time. Lost 4 in my yard in two years from pine borer beetles. 3 others are showing signs.
I was told to not use the traps , because it draws all the Beatles from miles away straight to your property , although it may kill some it’s not worth the risk.
These gemstone like bettles are used by ancient people to make jewelery. Only luxury brands use them these days, But this is a Good opportunity for getting more people to go bug hunting.
The Lantern fly came to Pa from Chinese decorative stone material I believe. They are causing damage here and spreading. It’s disastrous for grape growing regions
had/has me on the edge of my seat......as tantalizing as a prime time soap opera......YAY, GO NATURE !!
In CT. I've lost just about every ash tree on my property as did the neighbors. Ct.'s forests look like the fall from aerial photos with large plots of land
having dead trees from the beetles.
The colonial settlers already did that with corn and various other insects native to America