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Show PESTS ATTACK IDAHO FOREST -. - i jExperts Puzzled as to Species of Damaging Insect Investigation of the activities of the new forest pest, which Is reported to be destroying large acreages of timber tim-ber in tho vicinity of Payette lakes, Idaho, g being conducted by federal and state officials, according to a statement given out by F s. Baker fonst examiner In charge of public relations of the Ogden forest office l The pest appeared first In the form I of a white butterfly, whose eggs hutch I into small worms. These worms at-tack at-tack the pine needles and praduallv Ikill the tree I Mr. Barker said he was baffled by the pest and could not give It a name He declared lhat as far as he knew 111 was not present In any of tho other forests. Victor Jones, assistant entomologist at the University of Idaho and James C. Evcnden, entomologist nt Couer d'Alene. have gone to the Infested region re-gion in hopes f determining to what speclrs the pest belongs Infected pine boughs from trees In the Cache national forest received at the fore.tt office Saturday evidenc- -1 ;i menace In forest areas of Ixigan canyon This pest, however, eats tho hark of I he limbs In a spiral direction around the branches at the junction of the branches Plans are being made by I'orester R H. Hutledge for the Immediate Im-mediate extermination or these pests I also 1 |