mountain pine beetle
Conifer trunk pest
The mountain pine beetle is a small bark beetle native to western North America that burrows into pine trees to lay eggs, killing the host tree in the process.
Massive outbreaks have devastated millions of acres of forest, turning mountainsides rust-red with dead timber: Climate change has allowed mountain pine beetle populations to explode.
- infestationPest takeover situation
- lodgepoleSlender pine species
- forestTree-dense ecosystem
- outbreakSudden eruption of trouble
- larvaeImmature metamorphosing creatures
pheromone · deadwood · timber · Rockies · national park · epidemic · mass mortality · boring · galleries · resin · ghost forest · wildfire · logging · climate change · drought · whitebark · spruce · conifer
mountain pine beetlereforestation
Replanting depleted woodlands
tree planting · forest stewardship · old-growth forest · tree preservation · silviculture
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