Whitespoted Pine Sawyers look a lot like the Asian Longhorned Beetle. Fortunately the ALB isn’t common yet Upstate. That said, the presence of Pine Sawyers suggest that the pines aren’t exactly thriving either.

Everywhere you look there are threats to forest health but then again that’s not surprising as ecology is an always evolving process with species coming and going. Some changes good, some bad, at least from the human perspective.