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In response to the unprecedented spread of bark beetles in the Rocky Mountains and other parts of the western United States, the U.S. Forest Service formed the Western Bark Beetle Research Group (WBBRG) in 2007—a collaboration between scientists from three research stations that pools knowledge and resources to better understand the threat and eventually develop a strategy to combat it. [10]
In addition, forestry pests such as bark beetles, kept under control by natural enemies in their native range, may be transported large distances in cut timber to places where they have no natural predators, enabling them to cause extensive economic damage. [32] Pheromone traps have been used to monitor pest populations in the canopy. These ...
Bark beetles enter trees by boring holes in the bark of the tree, sometimes using the lenticels, or the pores plants use for gas exchange, to pass through the bark of the tree. [3] As the larvae consume the inner tissues of the tree, they often consume enough of the phloem to girdle the tree, cutting off the spread of water and nutrients.
Pork shoulders. Above the front limbs and behind the head is the shoulder blade. [2] It can be boned out and rolled up as a roasting joint, or cured as "collar bacon". Also known as spare rib roast and joint, it is not to be confused with the rack of spare ribs from the front belly. Pork butt, despite its name, is from the upper part of the ...
A boneless Boston butt, rolled, tied and ready for roasting. A Boston butt is the slightly wedge-shaped portion of the pork shoulder above the standard picnic cut [1] which includes the blade bone and the "lean butt" (which is boneless), both extensions of the tenderloin cut and can be used in place of the tenderloin. [2]
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Nearly 10,000 pounds of raw pork sausage and bologna were included in two separate recalls, federal officials announced. Meat from Baltimore-based Impero Foods & Meats and Oklahoma-based Ralph's ...
The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia. It has a hard black exoskeleton, and measures approximately 5 millimetres ( 1 ⁄ 4 in), about the size of a grain of rice.