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05.04.2018 Environment

Across Long Island, a race to keep up with the southern pine beetle

The southern pine beetle has ripped across Long Island and is now a major threat to the Pine Barrens. The Suffolk County Parks Department received three grants totaling $225,000...

05.05.2015 Environment

Legislature proposes commission to combat pine beetle scourge

The Suffolk County Legislature may create a commission of state and local authorities to deal with the southern pine beetle, a rice-grain-sized insect devastating nearby woodlands, before the problem...

05.04.2015 Environment

Beetlemania: Insect poses long-term threat to Pine Barrens

The southern pine beetle, as it turns out, isn’t all that southern anymore. The voracious and highly destructive insect — which decimates millions of cubic feet of timber across...

05.04.2015 Agriculture

The life cycle of a southern pine beetle infestation

Trees attacked by southern pine beetles go through three stages before the beetles move on: Fresh attacks: Females initiate the attack on the tree, releasing pheremones once a suitable...

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Across Long Island, a race to keep up with the southern pine beetle

Legislature proposes commission to combat pine beetle scourge

Beetlemania: Insect poses long-term threat to Pine Barrens

The life cycle of a southern pine beetle infestation