Forest Health Task Force talks beetles Thursday

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March 5, 2008

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FRISCO — A discussion Thursday will show off the latest in fighting pine beetles. 

 

Dr. Jan Meneley, a plant pathologist and president of Westminster-based AgBio Inc., will address the Forest Health Task Force meeting in Frisco Thursday morning about an alternative to chemical insecticide sprays and tree injections used to repel bark beetle attacks on lodgepole pine and other susceptible tree species.

 

AgBio’s Beetleblock-Verbenone is a repellent pheromone product for control of the mountain pine beetle and western pine beetle and other conifer-infesting beetles.

 

Cary Green, representing the White River National Forest, will discuss what the U.S. Forest Service knows about insecticide inoculations and their value in repelling bark beetle attacks. Earlier this week, the Associated Press erroneously reported that Vail Resorts had hired Massachusetts-based Arborjet to administer its trunk injectable treatments to lodgepole pines at their Breckenridge, Keystone, Vail and Beaver Creek resorts.

 

The meeting, which will run from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Thursday morning at the Best Western Lake Dillon Lodge in Frisco, is free and open to the public.