As the shot-hole borer continues to destroy trees across Perth, a scientific research firm is offering to trial a possible solution which kills the pest while keeping an infested tree alive.
Some of Perth's most significant trees have fallen victim to the borer.A Perth-based private scientific research firm is offering to trial, free of charge, a wrapping technique that may kill the shot-hole borer while saving an infested tree.
Currently the only known control method is to cut an infested tree down, or remove an infected branch.) "It's an anti-corrosion type plastic which keeps things from getting rusty," he told ABC Radio Perth."This plastic wrap is wrapped around trunk and boughs and is then heat-adhered to the trunk or the boughs of the tree, which it shrinks the plastic to the contours of the trunk and to the boughs and pretty much excludes oxygen.
A tree-killing beetle on the move across Perth is likely being spread beyond quarantine boundaries by people unaware of its existence, one scientist warns.
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