Show INFESTED FRUIT TREES THEES SHOULD BE USED FOR FUEL WOOD fruit trees seriously infested by shot hole borers or any trees heavily infested by bark beetles or wood boring insects should be removed and the wood used for fuel before spring or burned to destroy the contained insect pests it Is recommended that winter is a good time to get rid of tree borers and bark beetles for the protection of healthy trees next season open winter weather also is a good time to clean out the leaves and rubbish around berry bushes and destroy it also it is an opportune time to prune the plants to eliminate li injury next season in infested areas such cleanup is more effective than sprays it also eliminates certain other berry pests which hibernate among litter in the berry patches other fall aall insect control practices recon recommended are fall cleanup clean up of fence rows and ditch banks burning dry weeds removal and destruction of old cabbage cabbag e and cauliflower stumps and fall plowing to turn under grasshopper eggs and many insects which have sought shelter in protected places in or on the ground it is also suggested that orchard owners now check to see whether their orchard trees need to be sprayed next spring to control san jose scale leaf blister mite and other orchard mites household and stored products insects should be destroyed before winter |