Why should the United States be concerned about ALB?
A. The ALB is a serious threat to U.S. trees. ALB larvae bore deep into deciduous hardwood trees such as maple, birch, horse chestnut, poplar, willow, elm, and ash, eventually killing them. Damage from infestations in New York and Illinois has resulted in the removal of thousands of trees and costs to State and Federal governments in excess of $80 million since the discovery of the infestations in 1996. If the ALB were to expand beyond the current quarantined areas of New York and Illinois, it has the potential to wreak havoc nationwide, affecting such industries as lumber, maple syrup, nursery, commercial fruit, and tourism and accumulating over $650 billion in losses.
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