Have you seen an animal as small as a grain of rice killing a tree and moving on to another? Well I have and it is called THE PINE BEETLE! In order to help the Pine Beetle problem we need to know how the pine beetle destroys trees, how that affects the environment, and what can be done about it.
The pine beetle is an insect that is 5 millimeters long. It takes thousands of pine beetles to kill a healthy tree. It only takes 32 pine beetles to kill an unhealthy tree. While inside the tree they make clicking sounds to let the other pine beetles know where they are. Pine beetles eat old and weak trees that have not developed enough nutrients. This is how the pine beetles kill a tree.
The pine beetle killing is infecting the environment
The pine beetle is an insect that is 5 millimeters long. It takes thousands of pine beetles to kill a healthy tree. It only takes 32 pine beetles to kill an unhealthy tree. While inside the tree they make clicking sounds to let the other pine beetles know where they are. Pine beetles eat old and weak trees that have not developed enough nutrients. This is how the pine beetles kill a tree.
The pine beetle killing is infecting the environment