The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1911-10-12
seen this work you will always
recognize it.

recognize it.
In order that you may tho.
roughly understand the reasons
for our methods Of control, let
us give you a summary Of the
life of the beetle, beginning
with the summer:
The beetles kill a tree and
leave it in about thirty days OF
even more quickly. Three OF
four broods in the North and
four or five, or possibly more, in
the South, develop during the
year. In other words, they may
be increased four or FIVE times
from their original number du-
ring a season.
They fly in swarms during
the night, light on the upper
trunk of a pine (they are seldom
found in the first eight or ten
feet butt CUT, and preferably on
the largest and best timber.
They bore through the bark to
the wood, but do not bore into
the wood. On the surface of the
wood they make those winding
galleries with which you all are
familiar. These galleries, cross
ing and recrossing one another,
girdle the trees many times
thus killing them. The eggs
are laid/aUug the galleries,
barcfifng into little grubs which
feed on the sticky inner bark
for a short time, and then &c
into the outer bark where they
change into beetles with wings
The beetles bore through the
bark to the night and fly away
in swarms to attack other trees
They can fly for three or foul
| miles, may go in any direction,
and are, therefore, a menace tc
all timber within this circle, OF
three or four miles radius.
Since the beetles kill and leave
a tree in thirty days or even
more quickly, you will never
find their broods in old dead
trees. You will never find their
broods in trees that have been
dead a month or more. You
will find them in trees on which
the foliage is changing to light
green, or has changed to yellow,
or greenish brown. You will
find many other beetles in Old
dead trees, but never this one.
In November the beetles 20
into living trees, and their life
history is the same as in sum-
mer. with one exception-they
lay their eggs. The eggs hatch
into little grubs which feed a
short time on the inner bark,
and then go into the outer bark
where they may OF may not
change into beetles.
I mentioned one exception to
their summer life. 1t is this:
They do not come s.out in thirty
days; they do not come out till
spring.
Gentlemen, you have them
trapped. That is the time to 20
after them.
It is only necessary to cut
down the trees in which the
beetles are and destroy the
bark in which the broods of the
beetle are wintering. You do
not have to destroy the wood,
they only groove it slightly.
Furthermore. there are SO
many beneficial beetles in the
tops that feed on this destructive
one, that it is really better to
leave the tops in the woods.
Remember these particular
beetles are never in old dead
trees, or in trees from which
the foliage is falling or has
fallen, only in the light green,
yellow or greenish-brown trees
these are the only ones it is
absolutely necessary to cut
down. and the bark Of which
must be burned before the bee
ties leave it in the spring.
About destroying the bark, it
can be destroyed in several
ways, and in most cases in such
a manner as not to involve any
direct expense.
The trees in which the beetles
are spending the winter, name
lv tho lioht green. yellow O.: