Late but finally catching up on my backlog of photoblogs lol. Custer’s Burning Beetle celebration from January. Click any image to view larger.
bark beetle blues
Burn, Beetle, Burn!
photo by Paul Horsted / DakotaPhoto.com
This weekend was the second annual Burning Beetle festival in Custer, South Dakota, a celebration in dishonor of the ravenous mountain pine beetle, complete with the burning of a 28-foot wooden beetle ala Burning Man.
But what is a mountain pine beetle, and why is it so destructive?
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