Is there an insecticide that will kill them or no?
Utah Juniper 2020
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Housguy
Chumono
Yes, more preventative treatment though I believe, basically timing the treatment when the beetles are active, to help deter them from your trees.
Guess I did not understand your answer. Is there an insecticide (systemic or otherwise) that works for this problem verses having to remove all of the bark? I would guess the beetles are active spring thru fall?
Housguy
Chumono
Yes, I found this, hope this helps.
To prevent bark beetles from attacking your trees and bringing a fungus inside the wood you need to spray with an insecticide or use a systemic like Bayer All-in-One. There are a few variations of these products, including liquid and pellets. Rose & Flower All-in-One combines a low nitrogen fertilizer with neonicotinoid insecticide and a fungicide. The insecticide is supposed to kill beetles and other boring insects while the fungicide attacks the fungus infection.
The advice is to sprinkle a couple of tablespoons of the pellet version on top of your soil and then water. You’ll need to add more in a month or two because by watering every day the product will quickly be disolved.
Neonicotinoids are very effective against a lot of insects, but unfortunately are implicated in the mass death of bees. No final word on this yet, but it’s a good idea to be careful in how widely you use this product.
Housguy
Chumono
Update - first style by David aka Matt. Next step is to pot it and 2nd styling at the end of the year, looking forward to that day 
