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11The information for this
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entire paragraph comes from
the article by Milius.
grain of rice, laid in a small groove underneath the bark of the host tree. The
Therefore, it requires only a
female then plugs the hole with digested wood called “frass.” The egg stage
single documentation at the
end of the paragraph.
lasts about 11 days, and the emerging larva begins eating the tree’s
cambium, the soft yellow tissue just below the outer bark. The larva sheds
its skin twice and keeps gnawing its way into the heartwood of the tree,
where it will spend the winter. The following spring the larva
metamorphoses into its pupa stage, a smaller, softer version of the adult, and
Here’s another example of a
then after the body hardens, anytime from late spring through summer, the
new abbreviation being
introduced. But see below
adult ALB emerges through a dime-sized hole in the tree. According to a
for the well-known
abbreviation of USDA,
report of the New Pest Advisory Group (NPAG) the female ALB lives from
which doesn’t need to be
introduced.
14-66 days and the male, 3-40. During its adult stage, the ALB is busy
eating and mating. Chinese scientists have reported some females laying
thirty-five eggs in a forty-two day life span (Milius).
This paragraph continues
discussing the biology of the
Although the female chews grooves into the trees where she lays her
beetle, but now (as the first
sentence indicates), the
eggs, and thus does some damage to the tree, it is the eating pattern of the
subject changes to why the
beetle is such a problem.
larvae which is so destructive. As Michael T. Smith, an entomologist at the
We can infer from the
USDA Agricultural Research Service explains, when the larvae are eating
pattern of citation here that
the first two sentences are
the cambium, they are destroying the nutrient-carrying vessels in the trees,
from Becker and the last
and as they move into the heartwood, they are destroying the water-carrying
sentence is from Woodsen.
vessels (Becker 18-19). Whereas the gypsy moth weakens a tree, the ALB
kills it (Woodsen 8).
Native to China, Korea and Japan, the beetle was first noticed in this
country in 1996 by a homeowner in Greenpoint, a residential section of
Brooklyn, not far from the East River and a maritime port. At first, the
homeowner believed that vandals were trying to destroy the Norway
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