Australia’s shot-hole borer beetle invasion has begun, but we don’t need to chop down every tree under attack
- Written by: Theo Evans, Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
jgeyser, ShutterstockA new pest attacking Perth’s trees threatens to spread across Australia, damaging crops and native forests as well as our urban forest. To control its spread, the Western Australian government is chopping down hundreds of established trees. But these losses may be in vain.
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