The State Board of Agriculture declares that the Asian longhorned beetle, a dangerously injurious insect not known to be native to New Jersey, that damages hardwood trees especially maple (Norway, sugar, silver and red), birch, horsechestnut, poplar, willow, and elm by boring through bark, tunneling and girdling the tree until the tree is killed, to be a nuisance.
N.J. Admin. Code § 2:20-8.2