Industry pros, we need your help to control this new serious pest of boxwood…
Bart Brusse and Tom Intven, Co-chairs of the Box Tree Moth Industry Working Group, invite you to a meeting on September 5, 2019 from 10:00-noon EST to discuss this issue and develop BTM management options that make sense for industry. We had to pull this meeting together rather quickly, so we apologize for the short notice and the early start for those growers in the west.

With the recent find of Box Tree Moth (BTM) in Toronto, CNLA has been informed that USDA-APHIS is proposing import regulations for Buxus. The U.S. is considering including Ilex, Euonymus and Marraya in the regulations as they consider them potential hosts for box tree moth as well.

Meeting details:
Date: Thursday, September 5, 2019
Time: 7:00am BC, 8:00am AB, SK, 9:00MB, 10:00am ON, QC, 11:00am NB
Location: Elm Boardroom, Landscape Ontario/CNLA Home Office, 7856 Fifth Line Milton

You can attend by conference call as well:
Participant Code: 465 173 435#
Call in numbers:
(778) 200-8149  Vancouver, BC
(780) 666-2348  Edmonton, AB
(587) 315-3501  Calgary, AB
(306) 500-1584  Saskatoon, SK
(431) 800-1649  Winnipeg, MB
(647) 360-4694  Toronto, ON
(418)-431-9903  Quebec
(709) 700-0309  St. John’s, NL
(902) 701-1235  Halifax, NS
 
Please send me a quick reply if you are planning to participate.

CFIA has recommended that we as in industry, particularly boxwood growers, brainstorm some options to achieve a pest free place of production or a pest free production site that have the least restrictive measure for growers (see Section 2 of ISPM 10 attached). The intent is to have options for managing BTM at the farm that are consistent with practices growers are familiar with and ones that don’t add undue burden to growing or exporting host plants.  By doing this, CFIA will be prepared with industry generated options to propose to the USDA in negotiations.

The proposed emergency action is still only in email form and is not the final version, and timing for implementations is unknown. This is what we have seen so far:
 
“Regarding the new requirements, imports of host taxa produced in Ontario would need to come from a pest free place of production or a pest free production site per ISPM 10, with an additional declaration (AD) stating so. Also, any host taxa that entered Ontario prior to shipment to the United States must have an AD stating it was inspected and found free.”

If you have any questions, or need any clarifications, please contact:

Jamie Aalbers, Growers Manager
Canadian Nursery Landscape Association (CNLA)
Association Canadienne des Pépinières et des Paysagistes(ACPP) 
Direct 647-724-8630
Tel: 1.888.446.3499 ext 8630
jamie@canadanursery.com
Full-colour pest identification cards, including images of larva, webbing and damage to boxwood are now available for distribution to employees and clients. Download the pest identification card at Horttrades.com/box-tree-moth.
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