Slug: ROV ashborer Date 10/5/2009 The Blade/ Amy E. Voigt Location: Toledo, Ohio CAPTION: Dustin Whaley, with John's Tree Service out of Petersburg, MI, saws down a dead Ash Tree in the Toledo Botanical Gardens on October 5, 2009. Emerald Ash Borer killed the tree. John Scare (CQ), behind is the owner of the company.
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Dustin Whaley, of John's Tree Service in Petersburg, Mich., cuts up a dead ash tree taken down in the Toledo Botanical Garden as John Scare, owner of the company, looks on. Emerald ash borers killed the tree.
Grooves in the tree attest to its infestation by the ash borer, a voracious beetle.