Southern pine beetles rarely go above about 7 ft rom the ground. Bore thru

The bark and attack the cambium layer basically girdling the tree. You can see frass and resin oozing out of the holes. If a woodpecker was pecking it prob wasn’t SPBs... although they are only one of a variety of beetles.

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Posted: 07/16/2018 at 1:07PM

Southern Pine Beetles are a turrible thing. Second big pine in my yard is -- DonHo-kieHi 07/16/2018 10:25AM

Praying for my neighbor's pines to get them... -- Gobble Gobble 07/16/2018 1:21PM

Assuming the expense comes from having to clean the equipment after taking -- thankbud 07/16/2018 12:50PM

Lost both. None of neighbors' trees so far. ** -- TomTurkey 07/16/2018 10:46AM

Pine trees suck good riddance ** -- Technocrat 07/16/2018 10:43AM

So, you not going to just Let it Be? ** -- Hokie360 07/16/2018 10:32AM

Yep. I've lost one big pine that way and I'm concerned about another. -- MP4VT2004 07/16/2018 10:29AM

My dad and I put in a line of pines when I was a teenager. -- EDGEMAN 07/16/2018 10:36AM

I saw a woodpecker digging at the trunk of one recently. -- MP4VT2004 07/16/2018 11:03AM

Southern pine beetles rarely go above about 7 ft rom the ground. Bore thru -- DonHo-kieHi 07/16/2018 1:07PM

Well, the woodpecker was about 5 feet off the ground... ** -- MP4VT2004 07/16/2018 1:18PM

RuhRoh... ** -- DonHo-kieHi 07/16/2018 1:58PM

Southern pine beetles rarely go above about 7 ft rom the ground. Bore thru

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