Reporting EAB

If you think you have emerald ash borer on your property, or think you may have spotted it somewhere else, here's what you should do.

Download at emerald ash borer identification guide to verify if the insect looks like the one you saw, or if there are signs and symptoms of emerald ash borer around you.

If it looks like emerald ash borer or emerald ash borer damage, call either your county Extension office (found under the county government heading in your telephone book), or:

• Alabama — Jeff Head (State Plant Health Director) at (662) 323-1291

• Arkansas — (501) 225-1598 or visit the Arkansas Invasives Website

• Colorado — Colorado Dept. of Agriculture at (888) 248-5535 or CAPS.program@state.co.us

• Connecticut — The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station at (203) 974-8474 or email CAES.StateEntomologist@ct.gov

• Delaware — Department of Agriculture's Plant Industries Section at (302) 698-4586

• Florida — The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry at (888) 397-1517

• Georgia — Contact your county Extension office or email to Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health at: bugwood@uga.edu

• Illinois — Contact your county Extension office. The Illinois Department of Agriculture also offers a toll-free hotline at (800) 641-3934 for extension-confirmed infestations

• Indiana — (866) NO-EXOTIC

• Iowa — (515) 294-5963

• Kansas — (785) 564-6698 or ppwc@kda.ks.gov

• Kentucky — (859) 257-5838

• Louisiana — (855) 452-5323

• Maine — report it online, or call (207) 287-3891

• Maryland —

  • Ask Maryland's Garden Experts at the University of Maryland Home and Garden Information Center

  • Maryland Department of Agriculture — (410) 841-5920

• Massachusetts — The National EAB Hotline at (866) 322-4512

• Minnesota — (888) 545-6684 (Arrest-the-Pest Hotline)

• Mississippi — Reporting EAB: Please contact your county forester

• Missouri — (866) 716-9974

• Montana — Contact your county extension agent using this office listing (http://www.msuextension.org/localoffices.cfm), or contact your local City Forester

• Nebraska — (402) 471-2351 or the National EAB Hotline at (866) 322-4512

• New Hampshire — Report suspect trees and submit photos of damage to www.nhbugs.org or call (800) 444-8978

• New Jersey — New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture at (609) 406-6939 or visit www.emeraldashborer.nj.gov

• New York — (866) 640-0652

• North Carolina — (800) 206-9333 or newpest@ncagr.gov

• North Dakota —

  • North Dakota Forest Service in Fargo at (701) 231-5138

  • North Dakota Department of Agriculture in Fargo at (701) 239-7295

  • Bismarck at (701) 328-4765

• Ohio — (888) OHIO-EAB

• Oklahoma — Local EAB hotline at (405) 522-6158

• Oregon — To report a suspected invasive species in Oregon, click here or call 1-866-INVADER

• Pennsylvania — (866) 253-7189

• Rhode Island — To report a suspected exotic or invasive insect or plant, please fill out this Invasive Species Reporting Form

• South Carolina — Clemson's Division of Plant Industry at (864) 646-2140 or invasives@clemson.edu

• South Dakota — Fill out this contact form

• Tennessee — (800) 628-2631

• Texas — The National EAB Hotline at (866) 322-4512

• Vermont — The National EAB Hotline at (866) 322-4512, or contact your county forester

• Virginia — (804) 786-3515

• Washington DC — (202) 671-5133

• West Virginia — (304) 254-2941

• Wisconsin — (800) 462-2803

• Wyoming — (307) 777-5495

• USDA APHIS —

  • The National EAB Hotline at (866) 322-4512

  • Report.EAB@usda.gov

• Canada — (866) 463-6017 or the Report A Sighting page on the Invasives Species Centre website

• Canada — Manitoba — 204-793-2987, More information click here