Trees injected in efforts to stop beetles

WORCESTER (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - Officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture are in Worcester today, treating trees with an insecticide intended to counter the Asian longhorned beetle.

The pesticide is expected to keep tens of thousands of hardwood trees from coming down.

The two-month treatment effort is being used on healthy trees to keep them safe from the beetle that has caused the loss of 27,000 trees in a 74-square-mile zone, including parts of Holden, Boylston, West Boylston and Shrewsbury.

More than 10,000 of the removed trees were not infested.