Saturday, November 14, 2009

Pine Beetle?

Does the Mountain Pine Beetle infect Norwegian Pine Trees?

Pine Beetle?
click on the link below , it does not recognize the country but attacks a particular species of pine only . If Norway has them it will attack them . Read more--


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pine_beetle
Reply:OK, going to make a guess that you mean pines in norway rather than norwegian pine, largely because I don't know of a species called norwegian pine.





And the answer would be most likely no. Mountain pine beetle is a north american species. However, scotch pine, common tree in norway, is susceptible to Mtn pine beetle.


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