Finally a town has stepped forward to risk $6500 to save 30,000 ash trees. That is 23 cents per ash tree. The USDA wants the town to spend over $40,000,000 when an infestation is discovered. If I am right the emerald ash borer beetle will not infect the ash trees. If the trees are already infected, when the EAB emerges it will not be able to find a food source and will go to the next town or die of starvation. There are some experiments we will try that may actually kill the larvae of the EAB in the ash tree. In the West the bronze birch borer infestation was actually reversed by injecting biogenesis in the root system of the birch tree. No chemicals will be used.

This is an opportunity to save Illinois billions of dollars. When I started this project 6 months ago, I thought a new idea would be welcomed after the devastation of Michigan. Entomologists, arborists, foresters and politicians (except for Sen Kirk) shunned me. All I wanted to do was provide an inexpensive alternative to cutting down millions of healthy ash trees.....Rick