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The Mountain Pine Beetle metabase contains references to approximately 1800 websites pertaining to the Mountain Pine Beetle. To use our Mountain Pine Beetle metabase, select a category and/or type in a search phrase and click the Search button. Alternatively, click on the links below.

The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, is a bark beetle which lives most of its life under the bark of lodgepole, ponderosa and western white pine trees.

During the last few years, hot, dry summers and mild winters in central BC have lead to an epidemic in our mature pine forests.  These beetles have destroyed millions of pine trees in BC especially the province’s most commercially harvested tree, the lodgepole pine.

Woodpeckers are a natural predator of the Mountain Pine Beetle.

Here are some important links to valuable sites about the Mountain Pine Beetle Mountain Pine Beetle Task Force - Action Plan: 2005 to 2010 Natural Resources Canada - Mountain Pine Beetle Initiative Mountain Pine Beetles in British Columbia - BC Ministry of Forests The David Suzuki Foundation - BC Forests & the Mountain Pine Beetle Pacific Forestry Centre - Entomology - Mountain Pine Beetle site