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Munching Sound in Pine: Pine Sawyer Beetles in Dying Tree

Constant munching + sawdust + holes in old pine = pine sawyers. They infest dead/dying trees only. Check: needles turning brown? dropping? = tree dying. Causes: drought, herbicide, bark beetles. Sawyers arrive after. Tree won't recover once needles brown. No treatment for sawyers—they're secondary.

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