Sunday, April 19, 2009

Asian beetle threatens national pastime

No, not that beetle. This beetle:


Men's Journal, April 2009 -- Baseball’s Bug Problem
Add a new crisis for Major League Baseball: a tiny Asian import named the emerald ash borer. This beetle, discovered in Michigan in 2002, has quickly ravaged forests from there to Ohio, Indiana, and Maryland, killing tens of millions of white ash trees — the same type used by Louisville Slugger to make MLB’s official bats.

via J-Walk Blog and MLB.com.

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