Experts say that it just doesn’t get cold enough anymore to kill the pine beetles.
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Experts say that it just doesn’t get cold enough anymore to kill the pine beetles.
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All their crap flying in their own faces.
Great Falls, MT was 49 degrees below average @0700UTC.
http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~fxg1/DEPHR/last.html
40 years ago we had increased infestation of southern pine borer in eastern VA, NC and SC. This was because we couldn’t use DDT and we hadn’t had a hard freeze in a couple-three years. Sounds like we are running into the same cycle, except it looks like this winter may be a tad colder than we’ve had. It also seems like these infestations because we have warmer winters are a cyclic.
All the heat is hiding in Richmond for the next two days (70’s), but it is expected to go hide somewhere else by the weekend.
The annual Colorado hip disease which afflicts young women will be particularly devistating next spring.
The pine beetle larvae wonder why they feel so weird.
I’m all for the little pine beetle. He is just doing the job that the US Forest Service is incapable of doing, that is managing the forest. It is one way of reducing climax vegetation.