Beetles Attracted To Burned Trees Adding Onto Fire Aftermath Problems

DAVIS (CBS13) – As fires race through parts of Northern California, there’s a race of a different kind underway involving insects naturally drawn to the smoke and flames.
Certain beetles actually have thermal receptors that can sense fires miles away.
“When there’s a fire, boom, there they are,” said scientist Steve Haydon. “They just show up.”
Haydon, the senior museum scientist at the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology, says fires are a rare opportun