Czech scientists develop probe to help fight bark beetle infestation

Photo: Czech Television

After years of problems fighting bark beetle infestation, scientists from the University of South Bohemia and the Biological Centre of the Academy of Sciences in České Budějovice have come up with a major breakthrough. They have developed a probe that detects infested trees accurately and at an early stage.

Protecting Czechia’s deep pine forests from bark beetle has not been easy and there have been a number of calamities in recent decades.

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Author: Daniela Lazarová