Summertime PSA: If you see one of these in your tree, kill it immediately

Not The Bee ^ | June 25, 2025 | Harambe Harambe

[Red Badger]

Yes, I have the pass, available at any National Park office.............

[Red Badger]

Their preferred type of tree probably doesn’t grow in those places.................

[Red Badger]

They are Non-Union bugs...............

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Actually I think it is because Michigan sprays their trees.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Good for them.

I dislike pine trees. They produce no fruit, nut or firewood and they kill off other plants. They also attract lightening and fall over on your house.

I have been on a campaign to get rid of the dozen or so that are in our front yard and replace them with useful trees.

So far I have been out voted.

I got some lovely chestnut saplings that would go perfectly in those spots.

[Carriage Hill]

Yes, I usually sit the half-full can in the sun, to generate some heat and fume, and then it lights-off just fine.

[Red Badger]

They will also rot your roof....................

[Gay State Conservative]

They smell good though.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They do. Especially in winter.

And if someone wants to have them on their property or raise them for wood I will go and take a couple of whiffs.

But I prefer the land to be productive. And a dozen pine trees really are not.

[sonova]

None shown in CO. Like magic. Do these creatures just not go there? Seems unlikely.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep.

Mostly not a problem because we went with metal but still...

[Cold Heart]

Put em in your muzzle loader

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...a big sign that says that bringing firewood into the state is forbidden because of some bug. Can’t recall the name of the bug.”

My educated guess is the transport of the Emerald Ash Borer, which has decimated the Ash tree population.

https://www.dontmovefirewood.org/pest_pathogen/emerald-ash-borer-html/

We had one remaining Ash tree in our house yard and the EAB got to it. We cut it down, but we can’t seem to kill the thing - it keeps re-sprouting! It’s the only Ash on our property, so we’re considering just letting it do it’s thing as the EAB has obviously moved on.

[Carriage Hill]

Heh, I have a .50cal “Beowulf” — sold my Barrett M82A1 last year — so I could do that.

[KrisKrinkle]

“Drop them in a coffee can...”

Can you still get coffee in cans? All I see are plastic coffee containers.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Find an infested tree? Do what the government does with chickens and burn ALL the trees down!

[HereInTheHeartland]

What if you see a Iranian ayatollah in your tree?

[Red Badger]

That’s what they do around here. If a tree is infected with a pine bark beetle, they will cut it down and every tree within an acre of it and burn them in situ...........

[Red Badger]

Nuke him from orbit. It the only way to be sure.............

[FamiliarFace]

I’m going with Emerald Ash borer. Had them all over Ohio when we lived there, and when we moved to Indiana, found that they were spreading here. We’ve lost several beautiful ash trees to the borer.