Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1901 — Insects and Forest Fires. [ARTICLE]

Insects and Forest Fires.

There is a close connection and to a certain extent inter-dependence between the relations of forest fires to insect ravages, and insects to forest fires, diseases of trees to insects and insects to fungus diseases, which are not obvious at first sight. Dr. A. D. Hopkins, in a report on the insect enemies of the forest in the northwest treats fully of this subject. Trees dying from Injury by fires or weakened In vitality offer favorable conditions for the multiplication of vast numbers of destructive insects, says The Scientific American. Moreover, the trees which have been killed by insects furnish, In, their fallen branches and partially decayed trunks and dry berk, a chance for forest Area It is, of course, well known that forest trees weakened by disease contribute to the multiplication of Insect enemies to forests; therefore the study of Insects associated with unhealthy forest trees should lead to results of economic Importance.