Submitted by failedtalkshowhost t3_yzvqaw in askscience
BogusHype t1_ix58r16 wrote
There's a beetle called a bark beetle that burrows into the bark of the tree (ruining the tree, this is considered a serious pest) and hopefully survive the freeze. The forest loving people hope there's more than 4 Months of freeze so the next year will have less bark beetles. This I learned in New Mexico in the forests in the mountains near Santa Fe. The beatles are basically everywhere though. Very prevalent.
WhyalwaysSSDD t1_ix5fzg8 wrote
The mountain pine beetle in the Canadian Rockies, presumably south too, will cosntantly have swarms unless there is 3 consecutive weeks of -30°c to knock the population back. Wucks to have to endure it but it is nice when the mountains aren't all brown with dead trees that then light on fire.
BogusHype t1_ix5gbqf wrote
Maybe it was 4 weeks instead of months. This was years ago somebody told me.
WhyalwaysSSDD t1_ix5gydt wrote
Might be a different beetle down there too. Up here if you aren't absolutely miserable then the beetles will live. The past 2 years we have had 3-4 weeks of daily highs below -30° and it did knock them back, but the few years before it never got that cold (-25°max) and they flourished. A lot of fire tinder.
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments