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Article: Biting back at beetles.
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- Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Cheyenne, WY)
- Article date:
- October 10, 2005
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Byline: Jennifer Frazer
Oct. 10--CHEYENNE -- In the forests of southeastern Wyoming, a faint chewing sound is growing steadily louder.
Hidden inside galleries and tunnels just under the bark of pines, spruce and fir, tiny brown bark beetles and their larvae are feasting and spreading a blue-staining fungus that saps the nutrient transport tissues trees need to survive and fend off further attacks.
Soon forest visitors will see their handiwork in a forest streaked with brown and in skeletal trees pock-marked with sticky yellow sap.
"The unique thing that's going on is just about every one of our (tree) species has a beetle problem," said ...