1.   Clark hopes to help coordinate a project to place packets containing sponges soaked in verbenone on uninfested trees, to fool the pine beetles into leaving the tree alone.

2.   Fire ants, pine beetles and mosquitoes are also expected to be out in force.

3.   If in the future, there were only a handful of pine beetles extant, would The Endangered Species Act protect it from extinction?

4.   In one view, the pine beetle is less a pest than a tool for helping restore the natural balance of forests.

5.   So thank you dear God for the deserts, for Texas and for the pine beetles.

6.   The U.S. Forest Service plans to do just that as they arm for battle with pine beetles.

7.   Pine beetles are devouring trees throughout the South, prompting a bug war with their natural predators that agriculture officials are counting on to halt the invasion.

8.   It was the one they had planned to cut the tree down because it is infected with pine beetles.

9.   The checkered beetle eats the pine beetles as well as their eggs and larvae, while the wasps kill the pests by laying eggs inside their bodies.

10.   The primary culprit is the southern pine beetle, which becomes more active in dry weather and is ravaging trees in Georgia and Florida.