Asian Longhorned Beetles on the march eastward; how long before they breach 495 and then 128?

Daily Worcesteria photographs the first tree in Worcester taken down because it's infested with the dread Asian Longhorned Beetle - which Channel 4 reports could cost $100 million to eradicate from the city.

Bonus fun Massachusetts bug invasion fact: Gypsy moths were introduced to the U.S. by a Medford resident who thought he could use the cocoons spun by their caterpillars to replace silk. He was wrong and the caterpillars, of course, turned into moths and flew away.

Jennifer Forman Orth provides some helpful hints for calming your jittery nerves when looking at what seems to be a tree ravaged by these dread invaders. For example: They don't eat oak trees.

Worcester Magazine captures, photographs its very own Asian Longhorned Beetle, then fails to tell us how they promptly incinerated it in a blinding ball of flame, let alone filed a report with state creepy-crawly monitors. Maybe they plan to take him home and love him and hug him and pet him and squeeze him and call him George.

Know your enemy.