PREYING UPON THE EMERALD ASH BORER

 PEMBROKE — The City of Pembroke, Natural Resources Canada’s Forest Service and a small wasp are teaming up to help defend ash trees here.

On Monday, Pembroke’s Operations Committee approved a request from NRCan to use a woodlot at the end of D’Youville Drive as a research site to conduct releases of a small wasp that prays upon the emerald ash borer, a highly destructive and invasive beetle that feeds under the bark of ash trees, eventually killing them.