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.   A. Asian longhorned beetles, which previously had been found in Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island, were found in Manhattan this summer.

3.   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.

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

5.   Naola Gurstenwolf, an expert on the longhorned beetle who works with the New York City Audubon worries that Imidacloprid threatens birds in Central Park as well as humans.

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

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

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