WhyalwaysSSDD

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.

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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.

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