"emerald ash borer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2002 July 17, Taylor A. Scarr, Emerald ash borer, Canadian Food Inspection Agency",
          "text": "The emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis Fairmair (formerly A. marcopoli Obenberger), is native to China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia.",
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          "text": "Already, the Emerald ash borer has killed over 1,000 ash trees in five countries around Detroit, Michigan.",
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          "ref": "2004, Jason Van Driesche, Nature Out of Place: Biological Invasions In The Global Age",
          "text": "Then there was the emerald ash borer, an insect that–as a recent editorial in the Washington Post put it–\"could do to Eastern ash trees what an Asian blight did to chestnuts in the first half of the last century–wipe them out.\"",
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          "word": "Asiatischer Eschenprachtkäfer"
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          "word": "я́сеневая изумру́дная узкоте́лая зла́тка"
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          "word": "barrenador esmeralda del fresno"
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