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Jan 5, 2009 12:41 pm US/Eastern

Worcester Trees Cut Down In Beetle Battle

WORCESTER (WBZ) ― Workers have begun chopping down thousands of trees in Worcester in the battle to eradicate the destructive Asian longhorned beetle from the region.
 
Crews from two companies started removing the first of about 6,000 infected trees on Monday, just five months after the invasive pest was discovered in the city's Greendale section.
 
Trees in a two-square mile area face the chipper in the hopes of halting the spread of the black and white beetles, which bore dime-sized holes in hardwood trees, eventually killing them.

Officials say it could take a decade to complete the process within the full 64-square-mile regulated area which covers Worcester and parts of Shrewsbury, Boylston, West Boylston and Holden.

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