Pine Beetles

[InletBchDweller]

yes do get it checked out now...

here is a link for info...

http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/fidls/so_pine_beetle/so_pine.htm

 

[Beach Runner]

Thanks for the link!

 

[Mermaid]

SJ.... you are so full of I will have to tell you of a true story of a bug in a human ear..later!

I don't think SJ's pulling your leg, Franny. I have a friend who's a physician and she told me about a patient who stayed at a cheap motel and a cockroach crawled off the pillow and into her ear. They had to drown it with oil before they could pull it out with tweezers. The poor woman slept with earplugs for months afterwards. :shock:

Now back to the regular programming.

 

[DD]

I don't think SJ's pulling your leg, Franny. I have a friend who's a physician and she told me about a patient who stayed at a cheap motel and a cockroach crawled off the pillow and into her ear. They had to drown it with oil before they could pull it out with tweezers. The poor woman slept with earplugs for months afterwards. :shock:

Now back to the regular programming.

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[sunshine]

It looks to me like they are all over 30A and South Walton. There are a lot of pine trees that are turning or have turned completely brown. It seems like once they start to turn it's rapid from there.

I have become concerned about these pine trees that I see with yellowing or browning needles. This is only my 3rd September living here, and don't remember whether the needles turn yellow and brown more this time of year than other seasons. Anyone know?

 

[Uncle Timmy]

No it is very unusual. The pines do not turn brown in the fall normally.

The drought earlier this year really stressed the trees out and made them easy targets for beetles. I can't remember ever seeing as many dead trees in south Walton as this year.

To follow up with my post from July; the trees in question all died. I lost about three pines in total.

 

[Rita]

No it is very unusual. The pines do not turn brown in the fall normally.

The drought earlier this year really stressed the trees out and made them easy targets for beetles. I can't remember ever seeing as many dead trees in south Walton as this year.

To follow up with my post from July; the trees in question all died. I lost about three pines in total.

. That's hard to take. I need to look up the life cycle of the pine beetle.... Is there something we should be doing to prevent them for next year? I'll check into this, but please post if anyone knows already. Our trees were't affected this year.

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[Uncle Timmy]

. That's hard to take. I need to look up the life cycle of the pine beetle.... Is there something we should be doing to prevent them for next year? I'll check into this, but please post if anyone knows already. Our trees were't affected this year.

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Thanks.

The pines were all Sand Pines, which don't tend to live that long anyways and seem to be more vunerable to beetle attack. I have had several blow over during storms in the past few years, which makes me a bit nervous- so I have been allowing the pines to thin out a bit and replace them with native Sand Live Oaks, Wax Mrytles, and Magnolias.

The biggest problem now is that I have several, large dead trees in my yard that will need to be taken down.

I haven't seen any Long Leaf Pines that have turned brown lately so if this is what you have in your yard, you may be Ok.