Mountain Pine Beetle by Chloe

The pine forests in northern Canada are dieing – we can see it easily because the trees are turning red and then losing their leaves. The problem here is a little beetle about the size of a grain of rice: The mountain pine beetle. It creeps in under the bark of the pine tree and eventually kills it. The reason for this problem is that the winters have become too warm and the beetle doesn’t die off in the winter like it used to. If they don’t have a cold winter at the end of this year half of the forests will be dieing by the end of the next year. They kill the trees by putting blue stain fungus in the trees.