Southern Pine Beetle Handbook: Southern Pine Beetles Can Kill Your Ornamental Pine

Robert C. Thatcher; Jack E. Coster; Thomas L. Payne

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Southern Pine Beetle Handbook: Southern Pine Beetles Can Kill Your Ornamental Pine

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Robert C. Thatcher, Jack E. Coster, Thomas L. Payne

Year:

1974

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

USDA Forest Service, Combined Forest Pest Research and Development Program, Home and Garden Bulletin No. 226,

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Abstract

Southern pine beetles are compulsive eaters. Each year in the South from Texas to Virginia the voracious insects conduct a movable feast across thousands of acres of pine forests. Most trees die soon after the beetles sink their teeth into them.

Citation

Thatcher, Robert C.; Coster, Jack E.; Payne, Thomas L. 1974. Southern Pine Beetle Handbook: Southern Pine Beetles Can Kill Your Ornamental Pine. USDA Forest Service, Combined Forest Pest Research and Development Program, Home and Garden Bulletin No. 226,