1.   An adult Asian longhorned beetle can be up to an inch and a half long, and is black-bodied with white spots and long mottled black antennae.

2.   E. Richard Hoebeke, a Cornell entomologist, said the inch-long, black-and-white creatures have been tentatively identified as Anoplophora glabripennis, or Asian longhorned beetles.

3.   If ever the urge to step on a bug were justifiable, the Asian longhorned beetle is the bug that justifies it.

4.   The Asian longhorned beetle is a reminder of how important those borders are.

5.   The Asian beetle entered the United States aboard a Japanese ship in New Orleans some years ago and has made its way to much of the country since.

6.   The Asian long horned beetle, accidentally imported from Asia, is causing concern in Vermont, devastating a lot of maple trees, Andrews said.

7.   The goal is nothing less than eradication of the Asian longhorned beetle on this continent.

8.   The invaders are apparently Asian beetles of a sort never before seen in North America.

9.   The Asian longhorned beetle is destroying thousands of hardwood trees in Chicago and New York City, threatening to turn shady neighborhoods into urban deserts.