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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is urging Ohioans to check their trees for Asian longhorned beetles or signs of the insects this August.

As a result of new spotted lanternfly infestations in Ohio, Franklin, Hamilton, Lucas, Mahoning and Muskingum counties will be added to the quarantine area.

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed the detection of the box tree moth near the border of Hamilton and Clermont counties.

Jonathon Shields, Agriculture Inspection Manager with the Ohio Department of Agriculture, has confirmed a hatch of spotted lanternfly in Cincinnati. 

Learn how to avoid coming into contact with invasive plant species while you're hiking and how to prevent spreading their seeds.

It is now illegal to sell, grow, or plant Callery pear in Ohio because of its invasive qualities and likelihood to cause economic or environmental harm.

ODNR is encouraging people to report sightings of hemlock woolly adelgids, insects that can threaten hemlock forests.

Pasture walks and inspections help determine where invasive plants are taking root. Learn how to control invasive species when you find them.

One way to make a forest stand healthier is to control invasive species. Tree-of-heaven is an invasive that grows along field edges or areas of disturbance.

There are several different bush honeysuckle species in Ohio. Grouping them together, they are one of the most threatening invasive species in the state.