The VA Chapter seeks volunteers to help set up a program for monitoring traps in our orchards beginning early in 2014. There will be a workshop on the monitoring process at the TACF Annual Meeting in Herndon on Saturday, October 18th. A strong interest in entomology and an aptitude for insect identification are especially helpful for this process. You will have the pleasure of working with other like-minded volunteers to help manage the threat of this infestation to our chestnut orchards. If interested, please contact Regional Science Coordinator Matt Brinkman (gro.fca@ttam).
Additional information on Asian ambrosia beetles can be found at http://www.bugwood.org/factsheets/99-010.html and in the May/June 2013 issue of The Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation.
