An invasive pest has been found in oak trees in a west Santa Rosa neighborhood and it has tree experts sounding an alarm.
SANTA ROSA -- An invasive pest has been found in oak trees in a west Santa Rosa neighborhood that has officials and tree experts sounding an alarm. While the number of dying, infected trees is on the rise, removing them may make the problem even worse.
What killed Fresco's tree was no storm. It was an invasive beetle called the Mediterranean Oak Borer. The bug, which is prevalent in a number of European countries including France, was first discovered in California about six years ago in the Calistoga area. There is a suspicion that the borers may have hitched a ride to Northern California on some imported wood used for making wine barrels.
"If we don't have that beetle, would that drought work to kill a hundreds-year-old tree? It may not," said Dr. Eskalen."They cause stress on the plants but they don't kill the plants. But these guys -- the secondaries -- when they come, they kill them."
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