Experts say that cutting down and burning infested trees is the only way to contain it.
In fact, several infested trees were removed around Central Park.
The stumps of infested trees are ground to below the soil level.
Severely infested trees look like they are covered with strings of popcorn.
Reports from the infested tree allow other trees to protect themselves.
It means millions of adults emerging simultaneously from infested trees.
Some infested trees were oozing dark pitch from the holes.
The city announced this week that 12 infested trees had been found on a golf course in Queens.
The only way to fight the beetle is to cut down infested trees, then chip and burn them.
To date, the only way to fight the spread of the beetles has been to cut down infested trees.