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Pine Beetle Question
Posted on 2/10/24 at 6:27 pm
Posted on 2/10/24 at 6:27 pm
I have some trees that I think have been attacked by pine beetles. I am thinking about mixing some bifuthren with a little soap and trying to get as much as I can down their holes in the bark.
Has anyone had any luck with this tactic?
Has anyone had any luck with this tactic?
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Posted on 2/11/24 at 12:55 pm to Spankum
Sorry but that won't work
Posted on 2/11/24 at 1:14 pm to Spankum
Save your money and put it towards cutting down all of your pine trees.
Posted on 2/11/24 at 1:28 pm to Spankum
Are these older trees or young never been thinned?
Posted on 2/11/24 at 1:28 pm to Spankum
When my pines are attacked by beetles, they die. I live on a two acre lot and have lost more than a dozen pine trees to those farts.
Posted on 2/11/24 at 1:50 pm to Spankum
Cut it down. But you need to burn it as well.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 7:30 am to Spankum
Call a forester to come give you an opinion. On larger /timber tracts we’ve been told to cut them down inward on themselves if possible to keep them from spreading. Tops will die and turn orange and you often see the “sawdust” look around the base of the tree and the ground. They will take out large areas unfortunately if you don’t deal with them.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 12:30 pm to Spankum
I lost 5 acres in pines to those frickers 2 years ago. Cut the trees and burn the pile with napalm
Posted on 2/12/24 at 12:37 pm to Spankum
quote:once you see the beetle damage the tree is already dead
trying to get as much as I can down their holes in the bark
Posted on 2/12/24 at 4:43 pm to cgrand
I thought it was the drought that made some pines susceptible to the Beetles. In other words, the beetles are always around, it’s just that the weakened pines succumb to the beetles. I could be wrong about this though.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 4:52 pm to Spankum
They will fly up and move to another tree nearby the second you cut it down. So you will have to cut a radius (i think?)
Posted on 2/12/24 at 5:19 pm to m2pro
Anyone have a contact to cut 60-75 dead pines near Brookhaven?
Posted on 2/12/24 at 7:47 pm to Spankum
I’m a forester. 2023 was a brutal year for pine mortality from drought and beetles, which were made worse by the drought due to highly stressed trees. There are two primary types of bark beetles in sw MS: southern pine beetles and Ips engraver beetles. Both types were active in 2023, but most of what I have seen the past few months have been engraver beetles. Unfortunately, there is no good control for them. Usually, and fortunately, they go away on their own. Southern pine beetles are the ones you need to cut a buffer around.
Burning the trees won’t help. In fact there are beneficial, predatory beetles that will reproduce in the beetle-killed trees, so it is actually beneficial to leave the dead ones standing as habitat for the good beetles.
Call the MS forestry commission or a local consulting forester to see what type of beetle you have and whether or not you should do anything.
I feel for you. It has been a really tough past year.
Burning the trees won’t help. In fact there are beneficial, predatory beetles that will reproduce in the beetle-killed trees, so it is actually beneficial to leave the dead ones standing as habitat for the good beetles.
Call the MS forestry commission or a local consulting forester to see what type of beetle you have and whether or not you should do anything.
I feel for you. It has been a really tough past year.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 7:52 pm to Spankum
Disclaimer- I have no idea if this is true.
A guy sitting by the fire visiting my camp told me the only way to kill them is by spraying with a helicopter of crop duster set up.
He claims some travel in the tree tops or some across the ground. Two different types.
I was hammered. Sounded good to me. We just cut the tree and a few around it.
A guy sitting by the fire visiting my camp told me the only way to kill them is by spraying with a helicopter of crop duster set up.
He claims some travel in the tree tops or some across the ground. Two different types.
I was hammered. Sounded good to me. We just cut the tree and a few around it.
Posted on 2/12/24 at 10:00 pm to Big Dogris
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Big Dogris
Not what I wanted to hear, but thanks for the reply!
Posted on 2/13/24 at 1:54 am to Shut Up Mulllet
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A guy sitting by the fire visiting my camp told me the only way to kill them is by spraying with a helicopter of crop duster set up.
He claims some travel in the tree tops or some across the ground. Two different types.
I was hammered. Sounded good to me. We just cut the tree and a few around it.
Our A&M Forestry extension service here in East Texas says the trees are doomed before you even know. They attack stressed trees. And we always lose trees after a dry summer. Your first notice a browning of the needles. You then see little holes and rings of sap. And if you listen carefully you can hear them crunching up the interior. My wife is especially good at hearing them on our walks. I say a dozen but I've likely lost closer to twenty trees on my two acre lot. It was once thickly forested with pine but not any more.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:30 am to Spankum
There are 3 things that kill pine beetles
1. Bitter cold for several weeks
2. Fire
3 Woodpeckers
Cut the infested trees and surrounding trees, burn them.
I have seen entire swaths of pine forest die in a matter of days from those devils.
1. Bitter cold for several weeks
2. Fire
3 Woodpeckers
Cut the infested trees and surrounding trees, burn them.
I have seen entire swaths of pine forest die in a matter of days from those devils.
This post was edited on 2/14/24 at 8:33 am
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