Dendroctonus frontalis

I've been in, not for EAV, but for SPB.

Southern Pine Beetle has been involved with a little bit of that.

It's kind of interesting throwing that weight while we're using the actual fishing weights.

Throw it over and then pull everything up in there and snap your lines and back and forth.

What's called also blonding, which is where the bark is being scratched off of the woodpecker.

So you're just going to start seeing like, it looks like this nice sheen on the tree.

And if you were to pack the tree, you potentially could see the, if you pull back the bark and you could see maybe the larvae, if it's like early enough, I'm not really going to say that if you see the presence of galleries, like Southern pine beetle and Ips, I'm confident enough where I can say, yeah, Southern pine beetle or in a pine and, or yeah, that's Ips.

But when it comes to EAB, it's not, really unmistakable because there's a lot of competition going on between eab and other beetles and that can create and also within eab itself but that can kind of create chaotic patterns i'm you know i'll say this because this one thing i i was i'm not not really sold on the the the the the patterns.

Yeah.

I've been in, not for EAV, but for SPB and for Southern Pine Beetle, been involved with a little bit of that and it's kind of interesting throwing that lure or throwing that weight while we're using the actual fishing weights.

Throw it over and then pull everything up in there and snap your lines and back and forth.

It's never as simple as you just made it out to be there.

What's called also blonding, which is where the bark is being scratched off by the woodpecker.

So you're just going to start seeing like, it looks like this nice sheen on the tree.

And if you were to pack the tree, you potentially could see the, if you pull back the bark and you could see maybe the larvae, if it's like early enough, I'm not really going to say that if you see the presence of galleries, like Southern Pine Beetle and Ips, I'm confident enough where I can say, yeah, it's Southern Pine Beetle or it'll pine and, or yeah, that's Ips.

But when it comes to EAB, it's not, really unmistakable because there's a lot of competition going on between eab and other beetles and that can create and also within eab itself but they can kind of create chaotic patterns i'm you know i'll say this because this one thing i i was i'm not not really sold on the the the the The patterns.

Yeah, well most people think of forestry, they think of us growing pine trees to make wood and lumber and pulp, but there's a lot more that goes into a lot of technology that's behind all the ways we make decisions and stuff like that.

Just from a forest health standpoint, we're using a lot of drones to be able to identify southern pine beetle infestation spots.

In the past, we may have had to walk on the ground trying to figure out where that southern pine beetle spot is, but now we can throw a drone up and find it, look at it, be able to make decisions a lot more rapidly than what we did probably 10, 15 years ago.

That's an excellent point, Paul.

RT, we'll kick it over to you.

That's immediately what we do when we get done.

Before we do our after action review, get the drone in the air and take a look at it.

Paul, you said that you guys in Forest Health are using them a lot to check on things like southern pine beetle spots.