In this month's National Geographic there's an article on pine beetles. Have you seen it and if so what do you think about it?
Not yet, but I will look for it and report accordingly!
What's a "National Geographic"... some sort'a loggers publication??In this month's National Geographic there's an article on pine beetles.
Remember that all pathogens are opportunists, but that so are everybody else. The bugs can eat themselves out of business. There's some cool but complicated math to model and describe this but the short version is that there's always a lag behind events. That is: bugs attack trees --> trees die --> bugs die --> trees recover --> bugs return. It's mapped as a loop of population versus time, and is usually oval in shape due to the time it takes for tree recovery. Here's a Wikipedia article if anybody's interested.
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