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“Global warming”, obviously.
It is not the beetles that do the damage but the birds going after the beetles.
Burn it.
When we lived in South Carolina, we had lot’s of pines in our front yard. During the quiet morning hours you could hear a constant scrubbing sound coming from them and piles of sawdust all around. We tried everything to kill them, but to no avail. There is a new systemic from bayer that we are using on our black locusts, persimmons, and pines here in Wisconsin. It’s expensive! About $10 per tree per year. We have Borer beetles in some of the locusts and we should know if it works this spring.
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How about discounting log cabin homes to use up the die off?
I always knew Ringo and McCartney were trouble!
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Seen this? Comment?
This looks like a job for DDT. It would get the beetles and the stop the incoming plague of Malaria and Dengue Fever that is forthcoming.
But lets NOT log them and make some use of them, plus stopping the beetle infestation. Let them die and become kindling for the next lightning strike.
Geez, we better start a program to preserve the beetles, right? I mean, they’re endangered, aren’t they. Or they could be, right?
In Troy, the city has ordered the cutting down of all ashs and the property owners have to foot the bill. Lots have houses have numerous huge trees that are going to be quite expensive.
Its a good time to be in the tree business here.......
I lost three 60 ft Monterrey Pines to these buggers last year. I wish there were a treatment, but once they strike a tree it’s only a matter of time.
Thought you might be interested in this.
Is this the same beetle that is killing the trees in the Smokies?
Kinda makes the Gypsy moth liike like a pushover!
There was a nasty outbreak of pine beetle blight in northern Georgia, eastern Tennessee and southern North Carolina a few years back. It petered out before it got south to the area between Macon and Savannah — which was a lucky break, because losing trees around there would have led to a sharp rise in the price of all kinds of paper products.
Whoops, Beetles, NOT Beatles.
Great news. More destruction of our native trees - the Chestnut blight, the Dutch Elm disease, the Hemlock parasites, those damn Asian long-horned beetles, now this.