Out West we are looking at wetter winters and drier summers, higher spring stream flows but for shorter periods, longer fire seasons and bigger fires, forests filled with dead trees and pest infestations, and species on the move everywhere.
Classifying bark beetles as pests and dead trees as losses depend on management goals (Samman and Logan 2000).
The authorities said they cleaned up more than 25 sick or dead birds after miscalculated pest-control efforts at a bank branch.
Trim away any dead leaves and brush off pests such as insects.
Dropped fruits and dead foliage can harbor diseases and pests from one season to the next.
The owners of a golf course in Hampshire have apologised after a pet dog was apparently mistaken for a rabbit by pest controllers and shot dead.
All told, at least three-quarters of Mount Graham's summit forest will be dead in a year, says Carol Boyd, a Forest Service pest management specialist.
A resident said his body was discovered during a routine pest control inspection; he'd been dead at least a week.
When insects that break down dead trees invade structural timbers in buildings, they become pests.
The little body would slam against the sides, and, as Hugh went progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests, disease carriers who feasted upon the dead, and then came indoors to dance on our silverware.
