We know now it arrived at least ten years before being detected. Roughly one half inch long, the shiny, emerald green insect belongs to a group of beetles known as metallic wood-borers (Fig. 1).

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Moreton Bay and Port Jackson fig trees will be the first trees to come down. Small though it is, with females 2mm long and males even more diminutive, the beetle causes fatal damage by attacking a ...