Monday, October 25, 2010

Meet the (Ips) beetles - Carrboro, NC

What’s killing our pines? � The Carrboro Citizen:
Dead pines throughout our community are easy to spot. Isolated single specimens or groups of two or three pines lend a copper-brown color to the green tree canopy.
The deaths of isolated small groups of trees are most likely the result of Ips engraver beetles. There are three species, the small Ips, the medium Ips and the one we most likely have, the large Ips.

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