Spruce Budworm Attack
991 views · Published 19 June 2012 · 5:13 · Indexed 22 September 2026
Channel: NelsonStudios · 2012 · Science & Technology
Right now Western Montana, Northern Idaho and parts of Southern Canada are in the middle of a massive forest die-off. The culprits are a pair of creepy-crawlies the Pine Beetle and the Spruce Budworm. This insect tag-team is proving too much for the forests. The next time you pass through places like Butte or Missoula trees could be all dead replaced by a gray wall of snags or a fire blackened landscape. The Pine Beetle bores into the bark leaving open wounds and weakening the trees, the Spruce Budworm hatches and eats all of the new growth from the trees, killing the tops and preventing them from growing. Trees can only handle a few years of this before the whole thing dies. Insecticides are very costly and have to be sprayed from above, the pheromone patches are even more expensive and have a marginal effect. I have noticed the adult budworm moth has an affinity for the common bug zapper, I am proposing to try building massive zappers around four foot UV florescent tubes and place them out in the forest. I will update as to the effectiveness of this concept.
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