Background Information

         The EAB is a creature well known to the “bug” group that has the outer shell “green”, a secondary color, as camouflage. It has come over large bodies of water known as “seas” from a place called Asia. On the list of what eats what, the EAB is above primary consumers.

          A food chain is a way of showing who eats who. The bottom of the food chain gives energy to the rest of the food chain. They pass through from the bottom to the top.

         An ecosystem has contented of the food chain, a community, population, and many individuals of plant and animals. There are around 6 to 8 ecosystems in Colorado Springs.  an ecosystem is from the tips of the grass to the tops of the mountains filed but there are still many more. They are the current ecosystem of

Colorado Springs.

         An Invasive species have four different criteria than native animals. One of the four criteria are that they aren’t native to the place that they are living today, the case many bad things. They may not have any predators so they can be free and case lots of things to happen.

 

 

Impact of Emerald Ash Borer

       The EAB eats trees to survive instead of having them cut down for decoration. It would kill ash trees but everyone is making a big deal out of it when you can easily crush it and they can just treat all the ash trees or let them die. The EAB will spread to other ash trees and let them go extinct that would be fine.

        The food chain is away to explain how the predators and pray of each ecosystem interactions. It shows the wide range of animals, and which animal are the top predator. AN invasive species can change all of this. Most invasive species have no predators, so they may have free rein of other animals, or plants. They can take out the food source of other animals, which causes a chain reaction between the rest of the food chain. It can do this from the bottom of the food chain to the top. You can take out the top predator to start a chain reaction so the pray that the feed on reproduce more. So, they can and will eat more, then start the ripple effect that destroys that ecosystem from one little thing

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Action plan

1.Check outside for red eggs on, that mean that the EBA has planted their eggs into the tree

2.If not check if there a line all around (take a small piece of bark off to see inside).

3.If the tree is more than 15in in diameter then call for professional help

4.You can prevent this by not moving fire wood far places

The emerald ash board places red eggs inside the bark and keep reproducing killing more and more ash trees by the speed that they reproduce 
 

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