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Traps set to check for infestation of emerald ash borers

By Don Dodson
Wednesday July 23, 2008

Robin Scholz

One of the Illinois Department of Agriculture's emerald ash borer traps is attached to an ash tree along Springfield Avenue in Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN – Everyone knows a newspaper is "black and white and read all over." But what's purple, sticky and best when empty?

Nope, it's not a bottle of elderberry wine. The answer is an emerald ash borer trap, and 22 of them are hanging from ash trees in the Champaign-Urbana-Savoy area.

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