D-shaped holes in thebark or new tree shoots emerging at the root zone of your ash trees may be a sign of infestation by the Emerald Ash Borer, an insect native to the Far East that targets ash trees, says Dave Dailey of Birchcrest Tree and Landscape, in Rochester, N.
Officials are planning future beetle surveys and will try to limit the infestation with "girdling, " in which thick strips ofbark are removed from around infested ash trees.