BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR: The Asian longhorn beetle is about to hatch in Chicago for its yearly attack on that city's trees. But this year, city officials there may have an answer for the bug. CNN's Patty Davis with the story.</s>PATTY DAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Two years after the city of Chicago declared war on the Asian Longhorn Beetle, there is new weapon in the arsenal.</s>JOE SCHAFER, USDA SUPERVISOR: We're trying something new in the U.S. that's never been tried before.</s>DAVIS: Forestry official are injecting thousands of healthy trees with insecticide called Amacide (ph).</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The tries really make the neighborhood, and to see them go would really be a disaster.</s>DAVIS: They're hoping avoid this, gaping holes made by the Asian Longhorn Beetle, which kills trees -- and this, up until now, the only alternative. More than 1,300 trees have been lost in Illinois. That's what happened to this shady tree-lined street in the Ravenswood section of Chicago, one of first infested. Today, the neighborhood is starting over with new trees.</s>SCHAFER: The big fight here is to stop it before it goes into the wiles.</s>DAVIS: Accidentally shipped in wooden crates from China, the beetle was first seen on Chicago's trees in 1998. A new insecticide has been tested in China with promising results.</s>SCHAFER: The research has shown in China that it kills approximately, 50 percent of the adults that feed.</s>DAVIS: The chemical poisons the beetle as it feeds on tree bark and leaves. With the beetle expected to hatch within the next two weeks, forestry officials say they're not sure their new line of attack will work, but the war, they say, is far from over. Patty Davis, CNN Chicago.
Chicago City Officials Think They Have Defense Against Asian Longhorn Beetle