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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (125)	2/9/2002 9:33:43 PM
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Tree - Killing Beetle Strikes in NYC February 9, 2002 Tree - Killing Beetle Strikes in NYC By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 5:20 p.m. ET NEW YORK (AP) -- The Asian longhorned beetle, responsible for killing thousands of trees around New York, has invaded the city's most famous park. Two Central Park trees became infected and were cut down to be destroyed, parks department spokeswoman Jane Rudolph said Saturday. Almost half of the park's 26,000 trees are susceptible to infestation, she said. ``This is a very serious thing. You could potentially lose your parks over this,'' Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Saturday. Beetle infestation has killed thousands of trees in huge swaths of New York over the years, but this is the first time the beetle has been found in Manhattan's most famous park. The latest infestation was confirmed on Jan. 30. Parks officials said about half of the susceptible trees in the park already had been checked for infestation. Bill Hawks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's undersecretary of agriculture, pledged to help eliminate the beetles from the city. The beetles destroy trees by carving out tunnels to lay and raise their eggs, cutting off the tree's feeding system. The only sure way to eliminate the insect is to cut down a tree, put it through a chipper and burn the chips, Rudolph said. Experts suspect the beetle, a one- to two-inch long bug with distinctive white dots and long antennae, came to the United States from China in a cargo container made from infested wood. Since the initial outbreaks in 1996, the beetle has surfaced in 14 states from New York to California. Copyright 2002 The Associated Press