Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week is in May each year, and here at Don’t Move Firewood we are excited to give our partners the tools they need to make EAB Awareness Week the best outreach week ever!
EAB Awareness Week is May 17th to 23th for 2026. (note: some agencies and groups will define it as beginning or ending a day later due to the long weekend.)
We’ve found that some of the best inspiration for outreach pieces comes from “standing on the shoulders of giants,” so we’ve compiled all the past materials that we could access, as well as other non-date-specific materials that might prove of use. Bookmark this page for your reference for Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week!
Outreach Material Examples
- Ash Tree Tag, (generic version or Montana specific version), credit: Purdue University Extension
- Emerald ash borer mask (Colored In or Line Drawn) credit: Don’t Move Firewood
- Emerald ash borer coloring sheet credit: Don’t Move Firewood
- Purple Trap Velcro Bug Game Instructions, credit: Vermont Department of Agriculture
- Emerald ash borer DIY 3D paper model
- “WANTED: Dead or Alive ” EAB poster, credit: U. of Arkansas Extension and the Arkansas Plant Board
- Emerald ash borer awareness week toolkit by Vermont Invasives
Video Examples
- How to Identify the Emerald Ash Borer, credit: Outsmart Invasives
- EAB 101: What is emerald ash borer & where is it found? Oregon Department of Forestry
- EAB 102: How EAB kills ash trees? Oregon Department of Forestry
- Understanding the Life cycle of EAB, credit: Two Animators! LLP
- The Emerald Ash Borer is Coming Credit: StoneAgeMen (Untamed Science), Video was made possible through a grant from the USDA Forest Service
- Emerald Ash Borer Update 2018, Nebraska targeted but relevant information credit: Backyard Farmers
- Life cycle of the Emerald Ash Borer, national version, adapted from original Minnesota version, credit: Don’t Move Firewood
- Assessing your ash tree for Emerald Ash Borer, Colorado focused but appears good for use across the region, credit: Colorado State University
- “EAB (Get Ready)”, very quirky music video made by Denver Parks and Recreation, Denver Botanical Gardens, and with musical group Flobots
- Don’t Move Firewood Quick Commercial, national version, adapted from original Tennessee Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry, credit: Don’t Move Firewood
General Online Resources of Note
- Emerald Ash Borer University (a.k.a. “EAB U”) Webinars
- USDA APHIS, emerald ash borer page
- EmeraldAshBorer.info (forest health professionals oriented website)
Press Releases, News Articles, and Blurbs (from various years):
- 5 Resources for Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week 2025, University of New Hampshire
- Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week 2025, Pests in the Urban Landscape, University of California Ag. and Nat. Resources
- Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week: How to protect trees (rutherfordsource, TN 2021)
- Emerald Ash Borer Week (North Dakota, 2017 )
- Community’s Proclamations of Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week, 2014 Example/Template, created by S. Lucik at USDA APHIS
- Arbor week and Emerald Ash Borer week (Maine, 2020)
- Biocontrol Staff Are Modern-Day MacGyvers in the Fight Against Invasive Beetle (national, USDA APHIS, 2017)
- Plant Trees to Prepare for Emerald Ash Borer, Increase Diversity (Colorado, written for Arbor Day but easily adapted to EAB Awareness Week, 2017)
- Emerald Ash Borer awareness week (Wisconsin, 2013)
Governor’s Proclamations (from various years)
- North Dakota Governor’s Proclamation
- Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week New Hampshire Governor Christopher Sununu
- Governor O’Malley Declares May 18-24 Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week; Citizens Encouraged to Help Prevent the Emerald Pest from Spreading (Maryland)
- Governor’s Proclamations of Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week, 2014 Example/Template, created by S. Lucik with USDA APHIS
Social Media Ready Tips and Graphics
- In past years, the most commonly used hashtags for Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week have been #EABweek and #ashtrees. If you want to use #EAB that’s OK, but of course a lot of people don’t know what EAB is when you just use the initials- hence the need for an awareness week! Because of that, we suggest tagging @emeraldashborer in regular sentence use, and then using #EAB at the tail end of the tweet or post.
- If you’d like to tag Don’t Move Firewood, please note it is @dntmovefirewood, without that first “O” due to character limits. If you want to hashtag Don’t Move Firewood instead, we suggest writing it as #dontmovefirewood
- We’ve added a few easy-to-grab images below. Good luck!
