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Viburnum Leaf Beetle
News
News, project updates, announcements etc.
Viburnum leaf
beetle home


Logo images by Kent Loeffler, Paul Weston & Craig Cramer

Flyers

Use these one-page factsheets for posters, announcements, packet-fillers etc.

'Wanted' poster [letter size] .pdf
'Wanted' poster [legal size] .pdf

Note: To print legal size poster using Adobe Acrobat, from the File menu, choose Page Setup. In the dialog box under Paper, choose Legal.

Viburnum Leaf Beetles [black and white] - .pdf | .doc
Viburnum Leaf Beetles [color] - .pdf | .doc

Radio

Project featured on Maine Public Radio [5/21/03] - Listen.

News Releases - for use in your own publications

Viburnum leaf beetles are back in Northeast, hungrier than ever - [5/19/05] Cornell news service.

Gardeners bracing for beetle attack
[4/5/05, 335 words] .pdf | .doc

Viburnum leaf beetles will come back for seconds as adults emerge in July
[6/28/04, 800 words] .html

Citizen Scientists Fight Killer Beetle
[4/2/03, 707 words] .pdf | .doc

Cornell researchers seek volunteers to scout for beetle as it chews its way through region's viburnum bushes [3/27/03, Cornell News Service, 600 words]

Join Cornell Researchers to Help Fight Landscape Pest
[3/15/03, 600 words] .pdf | .doc

Join Cornell Researchers to Help Fight Landscape Pest
(Short version) [3/15/03, 300 words] .pdf | .doc

VLB in the News

Volunteers join forces to combat killer beetle - 11/26/04 Ithaca Journal story (archived).

Cornell University scientist hunts damaging beetle - 5/12/03 Associated Press story

Study of voracious beetle to begin - 4/14/03, Syracuse Post-Standard

Viburnum Chewer Makes Its Way Into Ohio, 11/6/02, Ohioline News.

Ravenous viburnum leaf beetles emerge in central, western New York and close to northern Pennsylvania border, 6/7/00, Cornell News release.

Voracious viburnum leaf beetle munches into Ithaca area, 6/17/99 Cornell Chronicle.

Virburnum Leaf Beetle in Geneva, 6/30/98, Cornell News release.

Meet the beetles: old world pest is found upstate, 8/22/96, Cornell Chronicle.

Nasty bugs on their way, 7/11/02, Home and Garden Television.



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Website design: Craig Cramer cdc25@cornell.edu

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