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On an early summer day in 2016, entomologist Jian Duan arrived at a nondescript office building in north Houston to deliver some bad news—and some good. Texas forestry officials had notified Duan a few days before that they’d made an alarming discovery in Harrison County, four hours to the northeast: they had trapped four adult emerald ash borers in a forested area just south of the East Texas hamlet of Karnack. The destructive beetle, which is native to the forests of Russia and northeast China, had previously been detected in the neighboring state of Louisiana, but this was its first sighting in Texas. The bug had jumped the border, and that was exceptionally bad news for the many varieties of native ash trees that call…

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