I maintain the infestation of an ash tree by an emerald ash borer beetle is a symptom of a stressed tree not a cause. Why does everyone tell me an EAB can infest a healthy tree? That statement goes against Nature. When I ask, "how can you possibly know?" there is dead silence on the phone. Everyone is passing on what one person has said without knowing why. Some one give me a good explanation.

What I am trying to do would be fun if it weren't so sad. The only solution proposed is to quarantine and cut down all ash trees within 1/2 mile of an infested tree. That's not a solution, that's a disaster! Our trees are precious.

We have to treat our trees with biogenesis and install as many field tuners as we can. Email me with your comments at thenaturaledge@comcast.net . It is becoming obvious to me that no one wants to accept a new idea.

Winnetka man may be able to save trees from ash borer
October 26, 2006
By IRV LEAVITT Staff Writer
A Winnetka man says he may be able to save the Chicago area from losing millions of ash trees to the ravages of emerald ash borers, identified in Kane County and North Shore trees this year. He says he's got a machine that can stop the pests without poisoning them, swatting them or even touching them.
"The field tuner, once it's turned on in an area, confuses bugs and beetles, and they no longer look for trees as a source of food or housing," Rick Day said of the electronic device to which he and Chicagoan Bill Thornton have purchased Illinois rights.
"It sounds a little Star Trekkie, but that's okay. That's the way it is."
Day and Thornton want a government agency or a private corporation to fund a test of the device next spring, when adult borers are expected to gnaw their way through the bark of ash trees, mate, then look for other trees to land upon and lay eggs. The men say the tuner, a product of Tainio Technology & Technique, may not work on the ash borers, but they bet it will.
After weeks of calls to local, state and federal officials, looking for sponsors, few have even called back, however, Day says. And none have been very encouraging.
Thornton says more people should listen to him and his partner, instead of heading toward the Michigan method of controlling the emerald ash borer: chopping down all the trees within a certain distance of borer sightings.
"It's like curing a disease of the finger by cutting the whole arm off," said Thornton, of Chicago's Irving Park neighborhood.
Marc Tainio, son of Bruce Tainio, the Washington state inventor of the tuner system and other "natural agricultural" products, agreed last week. He said that pests usually pick on ailing trees, and a healthy tree "naturally gives off a signal to leave it alone. An insect will just walk away and not notice what it's on is food."
The field tuner, he said, works by generating a frequency that doesn't hurt humans or other creatures, but convinces bugs that a wide swath of territory contains no trees suitable for dinner.
Tom Hall, an Alaska golf course owner, said Friday that he's a believer. He said eight or ten years ago, he installed a Tainio field tuner on the state's big Kenai peninsula, with the intent of putting a dent in the scourge of the spruce bark beetle there.
"I put it on my property, on my own, and within six months, all of a sudden an article comes out in the paper that the spruce beetle (infestation) is over," Hall said.
"Do I understand it? No. It's hard to understand how you can stop something from eating when its mouth ain't full."
Michael Fastabend, Alaska's spruce bark beetle coordinator for the Kenai peninsula, said Friday that the last big infestation apparently peaked around 1998 because 95 percent of the spruces were gone.
"In most areas the beetles simply took out all the spruce," he said. "They simply ran out of breeding material."
Hall maintains there are more spruces left than experts claim, who ignore him because he lacks a college degree.
"Pretty much the whole peninsula was infested, and all of a sudden it happened to turn around as soon as the tuner went in?" he asked.
Fastabend said he's not entirely discounting Hall's claims.
"Even in areas of tremendous beetle activity, where you may lose 99 out of 100 trees, there are trees that survive," the forester said. "Some trees may have developed some sort of response so beetles are not attracted to them. I just don't know if it has anything to do with noise.
"My understanding of (beetles) is they really have a complex communications system when they're attacking trees," he added. He noted that both spruce bark beetles and adult emerald ash borers seem attracted by volatile compounds exuded by sick trees. And the Alaskan beetles also release compounds that seem to signal each other to congregate or disperse.
Day, a self-described "technology freak," owns Stand-Up MRI of Deerfield, a three-year-old firm that provides a different angle on magnetic resonance imaging, so doctors can understand conditions not evident when patients are horizontal.
In addition to rights to the tuner, the men say their firm, The Natural Edge, also controls local sales of Tainio's other products. Day says, for less than $20 twice a year, an ash tree can be so invigorated that the Emerald Ash Borer Beetle will pass it by.

This article was featured in the Winnetka Talk, a local weekly newspaper on October 26th,2006. The article was also featured as the lead story on the internet for the Pioneer Press.

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Homeowners, let us assume we have taken an active role in protecting our ash trees by injecting biogenesis around the drip line of each ash tree by Thanksgiving. The biogenesis will breakdown the nutrients so they can be absorbed by the roots and flow through the ash tree. The stressed trees will become healthier. We don't know what will happen to the infested trees. We do know the increased flow of nutrients will benefit the tree through the winter when the larvae is feasting. We have to look forward to April-May when the pupae turns into ash borer beetles and emerge through the bark. The mature EAB feeds on the ash leaves, mates and lays their eggs in the bark of other stressed ash trees starting the cycle over. The EAB dies 3-4 weeks after emerging from the ash tree.

What would happen if we could confuse the EAB when it emerges from the ash tree? What would happen if the ash trees and the soil around it was energized so the EAB does not recognize the ash tree as a source of food and a home? The EAB would not be able to eat and lay their eggs in the stressed ash trees.

While you are reading the following, please remember we are able to harness solar energy, that gravity exists and there is magnetic north for our compasses. There is a new technology called a Field Tuner. The Field Tuner is a specially designed antenna that collects and directs the energies that constantly bathe the earth, and also the energies the earth emits. When the Field Tuner is properly placed the earth's energies help the soil and trees achieve a balanced state with increased vitality. We believe these energies will make the ash trees invisible to the EAB. The EAB will not have anything to eat or a place to lay its eggs as long as it is the range of the Field Tuner. The Field Tuner has been successful in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest with other types of insects.

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Your trees do not stand a chance. When was the last time you fertilized and watered your trees? You plant them on parkways and boulevards surrounded by concrete. Oil and gas spilloff, salt, and car exhaust are washed into the soil. The anaerobic microbes that breakdown the nutrients lie dormant, the tree is not being fed. The roots grow under the concrete into packed soil, gravel and sand. There is no secret why your trees are stressed and an easy prey for the EAB.

The bronze birch borer beetle in the state of Washington is kin the the EAB. Kerry Knorr, a senior arborist, with Tall Tree of Washington found that Biogenesis (a microbial product) was successful in reversing the infestation of the birch borer.

Biogenesis has a variety of species of indigenous soil microrganisms that are cultured in a laboratory, formulated in sequential order and held in a dry form through animated suspension for reconstitution and use at a later time. The dried and ground finished product contains millions of beneficial microbes per gram. A more detailed explanation can be emailed to you.

By injecting biogenesis into the soil around the ash tree, the microbes breakdown the nutrients for absorpsion into the root system. This will make a stressed ash tree healthy. We do not yet know what it will do for an EAB infested tree, but we have to do something. This is a decision each homeowner must make.

The cost of each application of biogenesis is $16 plus tax for each ash tree. Each homeowner can easily apply the biogenesis himself. The first application should be immediate, before the ground gets too hard. The second application should be March-April of 2007. The cost to cut down the ash tree, dispose of the wood and replant another tree could cost over $1,000. Remember, your local government could make you cut down the trees, or worse the government would cut down the trees and give you a bill!

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On October 18th the Illinois Department of Agriculture conducted a demonstration on the emerald ash borer beetle (EAB) in St. Charles, Illinois. The IDA taught us how to strip bark from the ash tree and tell whether they are infested by the EAB. The trees were cut down in a local subdivision. I met representatives from U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Illinois Department of Agriculture. There was also a team from the USDA researching ways to thwart the EAB infestation. It was obvious each person was dedicated to protecting Illinois from the EAB. However, they are under-funded and under-staffed. I believe there is a way for the home owner to protect his ash trees against the EAB, make sure his ash trees are healthy. The EAB will only infest a stressed ash tree.

Illinois has 130,000,000 ash trees. If only 2,000,000 ash trees become infected on private property, the cost to the Illinois home owners to cut them down and dispose of the wood could exceed $2 billion. Over 20,000,000 ash trees have been infected or cut down in Michigan and Ohio since 2002. We have a problem and our government has told us there is nothing we can do. That is not good enough!

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Can we save our ash trees from the ash borer beetle? Can we prevent the ash borer beetle from invading our neighborhoods? If an ash tree is infected, is cutting it down the only alternative? Tough questions! Our government says all ash trees within 1/2 mile of an infected ash tree must be cut down whether the tree is healthy or not. An entomologist told me "there is nothing we can do, we will just have to cut down the ash trees and then rebuild our forests". At what cost? How about making our ash trees healthier. Stressed trees are easy targets for the ash borer. There is a technology that energizes the trees so that the beetle does not recognize the ash tree as a home or food source. And there is a product made up of beneficial microbes that breakdown the nutrients in the soil so that they can be absorbed into the root system of the ash tree making the ash tree healthier. Email thenaturaledge@comcast.net