[GATOR NAVY]

These things can wipe out millions of trees.

Bark beetles take Connecticut-size bite out of Alaska

[aShepard]

AAAHHHHH!

..............A long run of warmer temperatures, Berg said. Though the Kenai Peninsula has experienced warm summers many times during the past century, the warmth “really shifted into overdrive” from 1987 to 1997. Without cool, wet summers to knock down bark beetle populations, millions of beetles flew from tree to tree each spring, boring into the bark of spruce trees and laying eggs................

GLOBAL WARMING!

IT’S BUSHES FAULT!