How to Recognize a Bark Beetle Infestation 

Bill Murray is VERY informative. Excellent video.

thank you, you really helped me with my dutch elm disease assignment for school. thanks for taking the time to explain so well everything, i learned lots now i understand better lots of things

Thanks David, I learned a lot and realized my Ponderosa's in Madera County, CA are doomed, the entire mountain is covered with dead trees, I've been watering mine but now they have pitch tubes all over them and they are pushing sap like crazy! I am going to go cry now too......

Thank you for this video. Super helpful!

Thank you! Really appreciate the shared knowledge.

Thank you for posting this video.

One year I was sitting in our livingroom and all of a sudden I could hear this "munch, munch, munch" sound. At first I thought we had rats but upon tracking the sound I found that it was coming from our wood pile. I thought for sure that I was going to find some rats in the stack but upon looking I found nothing at all. Very soon I realized the sound was coming from "inside" the wood and that was my first time ever experiencing or hearing of thes "bark beetles". I couldn't burn that wood fast enough lol.

We had HUGE DEVESTATION in Moro bay and los Osos ca. For the past 30 years. Due to Beatles or fungi depending on which experts you spoke to..A woman there made it in the news cause she treated a truely Dead looking pine She poured a solution of water and tea tree oil all around the roots every week, and over a 15 month period. The news took a pic again and it looked brand new. Very healthy! Thing is..". I lived next door..... this was real!

Excellent, excellent and excellent. Thank you.

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Just hide the bark with iron and Aluminum 1 aluminum layer and at the top left layer iron

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hi, you mentioned sell the infected tree to to the mill. will they take them? how deep does the damage go? thanks

Very informative, i have barkbeetle on 6 pinyon pines already removed 4. Can i treat the others and save them?

My friend just told me a lot of her fruit trees are dead from the beetle that makes those little black holes. I checked my trees and nothing. Of course I spray with Neem oil, but will be spraying them a lot more. Is there anything she can do?

bettles tree atacking here in Brazil too.Tropical pines it more sensible .The tree die.

I would have gladly worked as a volunteer in California, OR, or WA even if I was paid peanuts, to go out and fell these types of trees. I imagine that capable, marginal, homeless people living on the streets in those states would have done so as well, in exchange for lumber to build homes and homesteads. California especially, needs to think outside of the box if it wants to save itself. Who cares if it's federal or state land. As if the beetles care about imaginary lines on a map. The amount of destruction and chemical poisoning from burned homes and towns is mind-blowing. Better homesteaders than the hellscape of a big fire.

why is it necessary to take down the tree to stop the spread? I would have thought it would have the oppposite effect: to speed up infestation as the beetles move to the tree next door.

Title said, what to do about it? So what can you do, besides remove the tree? Will some insecticide work? Thanks

Can you tarp and treat infested firewood with insecticide?

Thanks boy iam in trouble the Beatles taking over

Where is the place ?

Bet

They have been chemtrailing the trees for years the bark beetles are just a side effect of it aluminum barium and mold spores

I sprayed all of my 55 scotch pine trees with herbicide trying to kill this beetle, instead it killed all my damn trees!!!!!

All efforts to control the beetles has failed. Best to just let the beetles run their course. Trees and bark beetles have co-existed for thousands of years. Just use dead trees for firewood. By the time standing dead trees are dried out enough to burn the beetles have left. A good book on how useless the attempts to stop bark beetles have been is 'Empire of the Beetles' by Andrew Nikiforuk.

Stop cutting down trees