New pest threatens ash trees. (Clippings).Homeowners will soon need a notebook just to remember all the pests threatening their trees. One of the newest, the emerald ash borer  This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. , hails from Asia and has been found in five heavily populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. counties in southeast Michigan Southeast Michigan, also called Southeastern Michigan, is a region in the Lower Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan that is home to a majority of the state's businesses and industries, and is home to slightly over half the state's population. , AP reports. In response, the state Agriculture Department issued a quarantine on ash trees and ash wood products in the affected areas: Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw, and Wayne counties, says AP. Emerald ash borers are a dark metallic green, about a half-inch long and one-sixteenth of an inch wide. They aren't usually noticed until upper portion of the tree thins and dies. Sightings
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