Larger 8 toothed Spruce bark beetle .

[Stubby]

Clear felling large areas round here to try and prevent it getting a hold . I know it prefers dead or dying but once established can infect healthy stock . Anything happening near you ?

[slack ma girdle]

As far as I'm aware the beetle prefers dead to start with, once that starts to run out rhe beetle moves into healthy trees. Or if the trees become stressed (drought),  they take advantage .

[Stubby]

3 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

As far as I'm aware the beetle prefers dead to start with, once that starts to run out rhe beetle moves into healthy trees. Or if the trees become stressed (drought),  they take advantage .

Yep . Kinda what I said . 🙂

[openspaceman]

7 hours ago, Stubby said:

Clear felling large areas round here to try and prevent it getting a hold . I know it prefers dead or dying but once established can infect healthy stock . Anything happening near you ?

When I started thinning young FC pine plantations we were not allowed to leave anything thicker than 2" or longer than 6' in the wood, this was so that the wood would quickly dry to prevent infestation by the pine shoot moth. I wonder if better forest hygiene or whole tree harvesting of spruce would  remove breeding habitat.

[spuddog0507]

2 hours ago, openspaceman said:

When I started thinning young FC pine plantations we were not allowed to leave anything thicker than 2" or longer than 6' in the wood, this was so that the wood would quickly dry to prevent infestation by the pine shoot moth. I wonder if better forest hygiene or whole tree harvesting of spruce would  remove breeding habitat.

They leave nothing behind today on most harvesting sites as the brash all gets collected and chipped,, i not even seen any fence posts on harvesting sites for i bet nearly 10 yrs now as most of that all go,s in the brash matt then collected at end of job,,

[Stubby]

6 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

They leave nothing behind today on most harvesting sites as the brash all gets collected and chipped,, i not even seen any fence posts on harvesting sites for i bet nearly 10 yrs now as most of that all go,s in the brash matt then collected at end of job,,

Coppicing sweet chestnut here at the moment hundreds of posts stacked and pointed up . 

[slack ma girdle]

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[openspaceman]

10 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

They leave nothing behind today on most harvesting sites as the brash all gets collected and chipped,, i not even seen any fence posts on harvesting sites for i bet nearly 10 yrs now as most of that all go,s in the brash matt then collected at end of job,,

How is that collected and chipped, it must be broke up and muddy?

[manco]

if it gets to liverpool theyll make it a tourist attraction

[devon TWiG]

23 hours ago, openspaceman said:

When I started thinning young FC pine plantations we were not allowed to leave anything thicker than 2" or longer than 6' in the wood, this was so that the wood would quickly dry to prevent infestation by the pine shoot moth. I wonder if better forest hygiene or whole tree harvesting of spruce would  remove breeding habitat.

It appears that  to leave deadwood , or create standing deadwood is particularly trendy at the moment ...for wildlife reasons ...