[1] This species has now been accidentally introduced into the eastern United States, where it was first discovered in 1996, as well as Canada, and several countries in Europe, including Austria, France, Germany, Italy and UK.

[2] In its native range, Anoplophora glabripennis primarily infests plants like maple, poplar, willow, and elm trees.

In the United States, A. glabripennis has completed development on species of these genera and also Aesculus, Albizia, birch, katsura, ash, planes, and Sorbus.

In Canada, complete development has been confirmed only on maple, birch, poplar, and willow, although oviposition has occurred on other tree genera.

In Europe, complete development has been recorded on maple, Aesculus, alder, birch, hornbeam, beech, ash, planes, poplar, Prunus, willow, and Sorbus.

The top five host genera infested in Europe, in decreasing order, are maple, birch, willow, Aesculus, and poplar.

[5] Other economically important trees attacked include apple (Malus domestica), mulberry (Morus alba), stone fruits (Prunus spp.

[13][14][15][16][17] In Europe, established populations have been found in Austria (in Braunau am Inn in 2001),[18] Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom,[2] though the beetle had also been intercepted in areas through inspection of international trade goods such as wood packaging.

[2][19][20][21] In January 2021 Austria was declared free of them after 4 years (2 life cycles) of no detections in Gallspach, the last Austrian infestation.

Asian long-horned beetle larvae do not pupate before they reach a critical weight, so additional larval instars can occur.

[2] Due to high tree mortality caused by larval feeding outside its native range, A. glabripennis can change both forest and urban ecosystems.

[2] Workers have found and reported infested material in warehouses in CA, FL, IL, IN, MA, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, WA, and WI in the United States, and in the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada.

[24] After an aggressive containment program and with the last confirmed sighting in 2007, Canada declared itself free of the beetle on April 5, 2013 and lifted restrictions on the movement of tree materials.

[25] In September 1998, US customs regulations were changed to require wooden packing materials from China be chemically treated or kiln-dried to prevent further infestations of the Asian long-horned beetle from arriving.

The use of solid wood packing materials for maritime shipping is regulated for adequate treatment methods at certain ports.

[30] Some resistant trees have been developed that quickly fill oviposition pits with sap or produce callous tissue that encases and kills eggs.

[31] In 2012, the first recorded outbreak of Asian longhorn beetle in the UK was found at Paddock Wood in Kent, near small commercial premises that had imported stone from China.

At the end of the first year’s survey, 1,500 trees had been felled and burned from fields and roadsides and 700 from commercial premises and private gardens.