BBC: Beetles destroy pines, fast. Ask any Northern New Mexican.
North America faces beetle plague. “We hit this perfect storm of warm winters, very warm summers and this large expanse of mature lodge pole pine.” Our beautiful piñons all died within three months. Now Old Las Vegas Highway and I-25 are littered with black, dead trunks and an overpopulation of termites. Beetles were so thick that summer, there would be spontaneous ‘fogs’ of them around the trees. Not enough water for the trees to push out sap and enclose the beetle larvae. Unless agencies are ready with pesticides and other means of control, be ready for hand-wringing, verbal diarrhea ... and mass devastation.
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