Question: I've Lost One of My Red Spruce Trees to Beetles. How do I Save Those Remaining?

You had three healthy red spruce trees, but one has recently died from a beetle infestation. What can you do to protect the remaining red spruce trees from beetles...?

Answer:

The red spruce tree infested with beetles needs to be cut down and removed from your property, else the beetle infestation will spread to the two healthy trees.

If you can't buck up and remove every last scrap of wood from the felled red spruce tree, at least burn what's left to kill any beetle larvae that might be present.

In the future, don't prune your red spruce trees when you've spotted beetles in your area (open red spruce tree wounds invite the beetle infestations).

To replace the soon-to-be removed red spruce tree with something more resistant to beetles, you could consider white fir (Abies concolor).

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