Husky288XP
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Do any of you guys down south deal with SPB often in an urban setting, if so:
What are your chemical controls?
What are your chemical controls?
Southern Pine Beetle
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Onyx (bifenthrin) is labelled for bark beetle prevention. No chemical control is likely to save a tree that's already infested, if that's what you mean. Even if you manage to kill all the beetles, they introduce a wilt fungus into the sapwood, which is usually the more immediate cause of death.
trees4est
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Verbenone, I think it's called,which is a particular pheremone that works to repel beetles from infesting trees, was just being brought to market when the last outbreak ended here. I never got to try it, but next time (unless there's something new) I'll try it.
xtremetrees
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Do pine beetles fly from tree to tree? Or do the beetles crawl around like most ground climbers?
Great info on how they bring a wilt fungus. Doesnt the fungus come from the beetles back? Here we call it blue stain fungus
Great info on how they bring a wilt fungus. Doesnt the fungus come from the beetles back? Here we call it blue stain fungus
The beetles fly from tree to tree. Yup, there are actually a few fungi that they carry - the one that's mainly responsible for SPB's variety of bluestain (<i>Ophiostoma minus</i>) is carried on the surface of the exoskeleton.
