📋 Tender Overview
April 17, 2025
(April 17, 2025) Munich - Bavarias spruce forests threatens. The warm spring weather makes the bark beetle active. Forest Minister Kaniber appeals to all forest owners: Now the bark beetle season 2025 begins. Please go to your forests regularly from now on and check your spruce stocks for fresh infestation. Frequent checks are particularly important this year because many beetles have successfully wintered. The number of bark beetles and thus the danger is unchanged.
For successful fighting, it is essential to look for drilling flour early. With infested spruces, this trickles down the trunk as a red -brown powder and collects on the bark, at the trunk foot and on the vegetation. Rain and wind make the search for drilling flour more difficult because it is washed or blown away. It is therefore worth checking more often. Forests that had already been infected in the previous year or were damaged by snow break, storm or hail are particularly at risk.
In the case of fresh infestation, hurry is required: these trees have to be processed quickly and removed or stored at a distance of 500 meters to the next spruce forest. Due to the currently high risk of forest fires, the minister appeals to all forest owners, not to burn, but to drive or cut them off. The Free State promotes bark beetle control without the use of insecticides and of course fire - last year alone, around 4 200 individual measures with a volume of over 18 million euros. Bavarias forest owners receive support and advice from the offices for nutrition, agriculture and forestry.
The state institution for forest and forestry has developed the practical aid Bookpinters and Kopferstecher - Recognize Infestation to help recognize bark beetle infestation.
