Cone – 1.25”-1.75” long, pendulous and oblong, ranging from violet to blue/black when immature ... weak coning years. Bark – Dark brown, separating into thin, scaly plates on older trees. The point of ...
It is killing forests filled with mature white spruce trees. The culprit is a tiny bug native to Alaska called the spruce bark beetle. The beetles have already devastated swaths of spruce forest ...