This little devil is the reason for so much active management in Custard State Park. It is destroying Ponderosa Pines and Lodgepole Pines because of our suppression of forest fires which has lead to an abundance of "food" for the beetles to destroy pines.
The Damage-
This is called the "Frass" its the pine tree trying to push the beetles out with sap!
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