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14 COURIER LIFE, AUG. 2-8, 2019
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BY ROSE ADAMS
Scientists from the national
Forest Service announced
Tuesday that they discovered
a new species of beetle in
Green-Wood Cemetery, claiming
the insect touts a neverbefore
seen package that’s got
biologists all worked up, according
to a federal forestry
technician.
“The male genitalia didn’t
match anything we have on
fi le,” said Marc DiGirolomo,
the Forest Health Technician
who fi rst spotted the beetle,
known as Agrilus 9898, during
the Forest Service’s survey
of the cemetery in 2017.
DiGirolomo found the diminutive
4-millimeter-long
insect while pulling wood
samples from one of Green-
Wood Cemetery’s European
beech trees two years ago, but
it wasn’t until he took a gander
at the bug’s private parts
that he noticed an itty-bitty
schlong he didn’t recognize —
a possible clue that the critter
was new to science.
So the forestry technician
sent the beetle in for testing,
and, sure enough, DNA results
proved the creature was
a unique specimen of the genome
Agrilus, a family of
about 3,000 species.
A type of jewel beetle, the
Agrilus genus originally hails
from Europe, and the Green-
Wood specimen most likely
traveled across the Atlantic
upon wooden shipping crates,
or imported trees, according
to DiGirolomo.
“Personally, it was pretty
amazing,” he said. “To be part
of a collaboration identifying
a new species is awesome.”
Not everyone is thrilled
about the discovery of the
Euro creepy crawly. Horticulturalists
at Green-Wood Cemetery,
a certifi ed arboretum
with over 7,000 trees, worry
about non-native insects destroying
their foliage. The
476-acre grave-yard is located
only a couple of blocks away
from Sunset Park’s shipping
ports, making it a hot spot for
invasive pests, according to
the cemetery’s resident green
thumb.
“We’re going to work
with the problem,” said Joseph
Charap, director of
horticulture at Green-Wood
Cemetery.
Agrilus 9898 has damaged
the outer twigs of the plants it
has infested, but DiGirolomo
does not think it poses a serious
threat to Kings County
trees. To better understand
the insect and its potential
impact on Green-Wood’s
green stuff, the National Forest
Service will fund a threeyear
study of trees throughout
Brooklyn.
As for Green-Wood Cemetery,
the discovery of the
wood-eating beetle at least
point to the success of the
cemetery’s collaboration with
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Forest Service.
“It’s gratifying to know
that the partnership can lead
to discoveries like this one,”
Charap noted.
Scientists identifi ed a new species of beetle at Green-Wood Cemetery
discovered by a male specimen’s unique genitalia. National Forest Service
Little prick leads to big
discovery at Green-Wood
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