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There have been mysterious purple boxes popping up in trees along roadsides and throughout forests. Charlie Nardozzi has some silly ideas about what they could be, and then explains what they really are. Tune in Friday afternoon and Saturday morning for the Vermont Garden Journal.
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I'm Charlie Nardozzi and here are some thoughts from my garden journal. Hey, has there been a run on purple box kites? Am I missing the latest hobby trend? Nope, those purple boxes hanging in trees throughout Vermont have a more important role to play. They're insect traps.
The emerald ash borer is a bright metallic green, 1/2-inch long Asian insect that invaded our shores in 2002, probably as a hitch hiker on some wooden packing boxes. It has been causing a path of destruction to ash trees killing millions of these hardwoods over a 15 state, 2 Canadian province region. Now it's knocking on Vermont's door. It's been spotted close by in New York and Canada.
The borer only attacks ash trees, but since Vermont's forest is composed of up 15 per cent ash, it could be a major environmental and visual blow to our state. It's the larval form of the insect that causes the most destruction. It...
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