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William F. McCambridge, Field Tests of Insecticides to Protect Ponderosa Pine from the Mountain Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), Journal of Economic Entomology, Volume 75, Issue 6, 1 December 1982, Pages 1080–1082, https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/75.6.1080
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Abstract
Individual ponderosa pines, Pinus ponderosa Lawson, can be protected from Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins attacks by spraying the boles with 2% carbaryl-water suspension. Although lindane emulsion at 2% gives equal protection, numerous pitch tubes leave trees cosmetically inferior. Other dose rates and materials are considered inferior. Insecticides tested kill a broad spectrum of insects, including predators of the mountain pine beetle. Predators may have been attracted to certain insecticide formulations.