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Article: Beetle Infestation Causes $220 Million in Damage to North Carolina Pine Trees.
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- September 29, 2002
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 29--The scourge of pine forests has taken advantage of warm winters and drought to attack trees on some of North Carolina's highest mountains.
The Southern pine beetle has destroyed a record $220 million in pines in South Carolina this year. The perennial pest, shorter than a grain of rice, kills trees after it bores into the bark to lay eggs. Trees stressed by four years of drought can't summon the energy to fight back.
But last year researchers were astonished to find the beetle gnawing away at trees high on Mount Mitchell, Roan Mountain and ...
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