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Beetles ravaging Mount Rushmore drain budgets as West warms
2014-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Beetles are obliterating forests throughout Colorado and the West, draining budgets as property values decline and threatening tourism at national parks, including the home of Mount Rushmore. Voters in Colorado communities raised taxes to protect ski resorts that bring in $3 billion annually to the economy. The pine beetles, each the size of a rice grain, have devoured 25 percent of the woods in South Dakota's Black Hills, where the mountain with massive carvings of Presidents George Washington,...
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At Crater Lake, pine beetles decimate whitebark pines
2013-08-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The latest mountain pine beetle infestation appears to be slowing down in Eastern Oregon, but not before becoming the leading killer of the signature tree of Crater Lake National Park - the whitebark pine. Park botanist Jennifer Beck says the beetle now kills more of the gnarled trees that grace the highest elevations of the park than an invasive fungus called white pine blister rust that also attacks them. "The older trees they are attacking are centuries old," said Beck. "They are often the...
Scout Cornfields for Rootworm Beetles Now
2013-07-27 04:04:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: Iowa Soybean Association On-Farm Network Some cornfields in Iowa are now silking, and even though we had a longer planting period than usual, most will be well into reproductive stages shortly. Tristan Mueller, ISA On-Farm Network program manager, says nows the time to be watching your fields for adult corn rootworm beetles. read more
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Beetles to blame for Colorado's fires? Blame climate change instead
2013-06-24 23:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NBC: Tiny, winged bark beetles have been the ecological bad guys of the West for more than a decade, and rightfully so. They've killed off millions of acres' worth of trees in Colorado. Now all those dead trees are feeding the flames across tens of thousands of acres in the southern part of the state. The West Fork Complex fire raging through southwest Colorado has already burned through more than 75,000 acres, including wide stretches of tinder-dry trees hit by beetle damage. With 600 people evacuated...
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Delayed Soybean Planting Could Impact Bean Leaf Beetles, Soybean Aphid Establishment
2013-06-04 21:49:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: University of Illinois The stormy spring weather across much of the nations mid-section that continues to cause corn and soybean planting delays will also affect this seasons insect activity, says Mike Gray, a professor of entomology at the University of Illinois. read more
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