| Show Woodpeckers Help Woodpeckers last winter helped GO Government scouts to run do down n elm lm bark barb beetles Insects that carry the Dutch elm disease now threatening threat threat- fining ening the American elm with ex- ex extinction extinction ex extinction The woodpeckers working on beetle infested trees removed the outer bark The lighter color color- colored colored ed d inner lOner hark bark thus expo exposed ed v was as a signal to inspectors looking for in- in infested infested in invested vested trees Crews under the direction of ot en- en entomologists en entomologists t and plant pathologists of the United States Department of tf Agriculture scouted for Cor th diseased diseased as ased ed and beetle infested ted elm trees through h Connecticut New York and New Jersey where here the Dutch elm ilm disease is known to be present presentA A total of 2138 diseased or badly b beetle 1 infected trees were destroyed destroy- destroy destroyed ed |
