No matter if your attraction to the outdoors is hunting, hiking, mountain biking, photography, bird watching or the forest industry, your hobby or livelihood is under attack.

If you don’t feel fear when those attackers are no bigger than a grain of rice, you better think again.

The southern states of Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi are seeing a historic outbreak of pine beetles. It is the most significant southern pine beetle outbreak in two decades. The current outbreak began in 2023 and the numbers are growing daily.