Cold snap could put a dent in beetle population

Let's hope that we keep the cold going for awhile yet.

The Arctic freeze is cold enough to freeze flesh, but not enough to decimate pine beetles.

The cold snap that‘s numbing the Okanagan should kill “some” of the tree-slayers – as long as temperatures stay cold through next weekend, said Lorraine Maclauchlan, an entomologist with the Ministry of Forests in Kamloops.

“If it stays this cold for a number of days or a week, you‘ll start to see some mortality. It depends on how cold it is,” she said Tuesday.

BC needs it!