The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Pine Beetle

(Ips sexdentatus), the largest beetle of the family Scolytidae found in the USSR. The cylindrical body reaches 8 mm in length and is covered with long brownish yellow hairs. The apices of the elytra have six denticles each. The coloration is brown. The pine beetle, which is distributed in Europe and North Asia, infests the common pine, Siberian stone pine, spruce, fir, and larch. It usually inhabits the thick trunks of dead but not yet desiccated trees; it also infests and causes the death of weakened living trees. There is one generation each year. Control measures include notching and stripping the bark from affected trees before the beetles emerge and setting out trap trees whose bark has been removed during pupation of the insect larvae.

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The Cariboo region in which the company's 100 Mile House mill is located has been under mounting wood supply pressure for the past decade as a result of the mountain pine beetle epidemic.

Norbord announces indefinite curtailment of OSB mill in British Columbia

* Mortality mostly attributed to western pine beetle (Dendroctonus brevicomis; WPB).

The California Tree Mortality Data Collection Network -- Enhanced communication and collaboration among scientists and stakeholders

Early signs are that national forests in Mississippi will face a second consecutive year of a severe Southern pine beetle outbreak, threatening to damage tens of thousands of acres, according to the National Forest Service.

National forests brace for next pine beetle onslaught

Jackson, MS, May 26, 2018 --(PR.com)-- The Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC) completes Forest Health flights twice annually to monitor forest health issues, such as the southern pine beetle. The interactive map includes data from the most recent flights as well as data provided by the U.S.

Southern Pine Beetle Activity Map: Privately Owned Forestland

Beginning in the late 1990s, the pine forests of Montana began to experience the largest mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreak in recorded history (Mitton and Ferrenberg 2012).

Impacts of the Mountain Pine Beetle on Sawmill Operations, Costs, and Product Values in Montana

By 2014, pine beetle numbers began to decline with new infestation totaling about 600,000 acres.

RECOVERING FROM THE MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE: The Impact on Sawmills and Forest Products in Montana

Companies such as Interfor, West Fraser and Conifex have struggled for years with the mountain pine beetle, which has destroyed millions of acres of timber in the western provinces of Canada and Rocky Mountain states of the United States.

'Good Globalization'

Bales, a naturalist and author, provides 12 essays about nature in East Tennessee, describing fleeting, short-lived, or transient flora and fauna: the short-eared owl; the jack-in-the-pulpit plant; the cerulean warbler; the ghost plant, which grows in areas without sunlight; the Appalachian panda, an ancestor of the red panda; the ruby-throated hummingbird; the freshwater jellyfish; the monarch butterfly; the seldom-seen lake sturgeon and its reintroduction into the waters of the Tennessee Valley; the whooping crane; the southern pine beetle; and the coyote-wolf and coyote-dog hybrids and their emergence in the eastern states.

Ephemeral by Nature: Exploring the Exceptional With a Tennessee Naturalist

Struggling for life in the face of challenges--the pesky mountain pine beetle, a non-native fungal disease called white pine blister rust, and the always ominous force of climate change --the species could certainly use someone advocating for its restoration.

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