Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 8314
Larger Eight-toothed European Spruce Bark Beetles
Tabled: 9 October 2024
Answered: 16 October 2024
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the damage caused by the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle to trees in (a) Central Bedfordshire and (b) the UK.
Answer
Mary CreaghThe eight-toothed spruce bark beetle is a quarantine pest of spruce tree species and is not native to the UK. The Forestry Commission have a nationwide surveillance programme in place to monitor for incursions of this pest, which spreads naturally from Eu...
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