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'IMce Ins: week. Smuflw‘flc resident Susan Palmer saw an "cmeraldy-gmen sparkly bug” on her property in the Tenth Line and Main Street area. BY SANDRA BOLAN sbxflun‘a’yrmg4‘0m Is it an emerald ash borer or a sixsponed tiger beetle? Ash borer has harmless look-alike ~ She didn't think much about ir. that is. until she read a story from the Stoufiville Sun- 'l‘ribune and ynrhegionxom Saturday about traps being placed throughout southern York Region. including Whitchunfh-Stouffvillc. to help determine the number 0! ash trees affecred by the emerald ash borer. “I had a very good look at it." Ms Palmer said. noting she is quite sum}! is an emerald ash bore-r. ‘It is a Very pretty bug. But even though it's nice. I don“! want it their.” Ms Palmer has callan a tree specialist. whowiflkmkatalmeinheryard. shebelievvs is ash. IS“ . . ‘ Far more moon. 1) to mjnspecwngcca/ "'Ihmgs always mgr-ate." she Des-(S. mmu or mbaaflnstca James lane. ama forester for Ymk Region. them are no confirmed cases of emerald ash borer within Whitchuu‘h-Slouflville and Ms Palmer may actually have seen a sixâ€"spot tedligelbeetle.which isalsoaboulmeslze of ytldr fingernail and often mistaken for the emerald ash boret. But unlike the borer. the beetle is About IO to 15 of the pheromone traps are being hung four to five metres. above gmund within a lG-squaneâ€"kilometre area of Wtchurch-Stoufl‘ville, bounded by Bethesda Road. Nineteenth Avenue. Hwy. 404 and Ken- nedy Road. ' Cases ofemerald ash bowr have been con- firmed in Markham and Richmond Hill. To help determine the number of trees in York Region amede by the emerald 19h boner. about 250 insect traps are being placed in area ash (me: by the Region onork