(Story written by Noah Haswell of Beaver County Radio, Published on September 11, 2024 at 10:00 A.M.)

(Pittsburgh, PA) Pennsylvanians should be aware of an insect that is threatening the environment. The box tree moth has been discovered here in Pennsylvania as a new insect in North America and the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture located the bug in two cemeteries in Erie County, which caused the county to be quarantined. The moth destroys the largest selling evergreen shrubs in the United State, boxwood trees, and are spread from the shipping and selling of the infected trees. These bugs have already been spotted in Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio and Ontario, Canada.