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Invasive Species Project

Asian Longhorn Beetle Anoplophora glabripennis By: Nickolas Lair & Luis Sanchez. Invasive Species Project. Distribution. From small forest in China, Japan, and Korea Introduced in Brooklyn, New York in 1996 Came to the U.S. in the 1980s

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Invasive Species Project

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  1. Asian Longhorn Beetle Anoplophoraglabripennis By: Nickolas Lair & Luis Sanchez Invasive Species Project

  2. Distribution • From small forest in China, Japan, and Korea • Introduced in Brooklyn, New York in 1996 • Came to the U.S. in the 1980s • Came here on a Chinese cargo ship accidently in wooden boxes with pipes, for a sewage pipe project

  3. Effects on people • Severely damages trees, such as maples, elms, chestnuts, willows, mulberries, and black locusts • They eat the insides of these trees, thus, in time, killing the trees • This bad for people, because killing the trees reduces the oxygen

  4. Effects on Ecosystems • Since they kill trees, it reduces oxygen, and it destroys homes of other organisms

  5. Food Web CO2

  6. Reasons for Success • It is successful in its new habitat because there are plenty of trees in the ecosystem • It’s also successful because there are no natural predators in its new habitat

  7. Issues for the Future • There are no attempts to kill the beetle since there are no pesticides that can kill it • A trade-off can be if we can’t find a pesticide that can kill the beetle they would end up destroying more trees

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