Forest fires are increasingly causing devastations across the world, leaving the authorities with no option than to watch the huge fires swallowing acres of these already ailing greeneries.
If you are not, the nature has it all equipped for its green’s survival – this time it’s the fire-loving beetles! Though it can’t prevent fires from blazing, it can provide a self-healing touch, with not the beetles themselves, but their ‘bug-like droppings’ or ‘frass’.
A forestry graduate has discovered these beetle droppings in the burned and decaying trees, from burned-out area of a northern Alberta hamlet, partially lost to wildfire during the 2001 blazing summer. He found that the insects’ droppings help replenish soil nutrients vital for plant-regeneration after a fire.
Discovering it, the University of Alberta forestry graduate Tyler Cobb said,
This means that rather than being considered a pest or a nuisance, these beetles are in fact very important to helping burned forests recover.
But, with 50 to 60 beetles capable of producing just a handful of these useful droppings, their artificial culture and protection seems to be vital – to help the ravaged forests replenish quicker than what possible naturally.
And for this, ‘logging’ must be stopped is eventually takes the beetles out of the forest that lay their eggs in the dead trees, leading the larvae get destroyed with the wood’s processing at the sawmills.
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