Show f DAMAGED I OF R BEETLE i ize e but Great in in rs and Per- Per Ii o Oct oat 26 A A little little It the tho size of or a coffee cortee causes more losses loses to jhan han all aU the forest fires tires o or nature tuber borers borer called h he has been marked ed for forthe the the ie United States forch for for- or ch chIs is waging war upon sl ir as upon n the human K AVY troys almost 2 per cent r in the nation er rr c cent nt of the dead and me in its a walls give mute testimony ocra tiers s sl first bores in through e e es i meat u R neat little home for himself and family and operations begin bein Spreading out in Inn nn an n directions the fam tam ily increases until the tho entire tree is en en- circles Off the rich life lite tissue between the tree proper and the bark they live cutting off ore the sustaining sap This Job completed by death of the tree the whole family this time perhaps a a. thousand I 5 more numerous than before moves mo o I VS MAN i As many as trees have been found I destroyed in one section This represents an average value o of or 4 OO per TIer section sec sec- tion from which it can b be se seen n that this innocent looking little insect has cost the people of the United States hundreds of millions of dollars But hes he's a marked marled bu bus bug Every livery tree found f with signs of the is cut down and burned by the forest rangers ranger rang rang- er ers Traps consisting of down cut-down trees are laid for him and then destroyed |