WELLFLEET 



WellfleetHas-a great area of pitch pine, but the pitch 

 pine is not of large size. There are a few stands of oak of 

 both cordwood size and smaller. In addition there are ma.ny ex- 

 tensive areas of plantable la.nd covered with hog cra^nberries or 

 some other worthless covering. There is a stand of Scotdh a.nd 

 pitch pine which ires planted a good many years ago. This stand 

 has done fairly well, but no?; a borer*ha.s gotten into the Scotch 

 pine, killing it rather rapidly. Some seed from the Scotch pine 

 has been thrown and the seedlings are now three feet in height. 

 Even in its present condition, it is ? good example of what can be 

 done by planting to reproduce the forest cover of Cape Ood, In 

 the vicinity of South Wellfleet there are large areas of absolutely 

 barren land. A portion of this may be used in the future by 

 summer residents, but a great deal of it ?/ill never amount to any- 

 thing unless reforested. 



* This borer, the white spotted sawyer, Latin name Monohamnus 

 scutellatus, measures about five-eighths of an inch in length and 

 ms.y be recognized by its nearly uniform black color mottled with 

 white. Many times these grubs probably breed in large numbers in 

 nearby decaying, dead or dying trees and then, because of lack of 

 more suitable conditions, attack living pine. This is no doubt 

 the condition that has occurred in the stand described above. 

 These grubs quickly infest heaJthy pine a.nd within a short time 

 cause the death of that tree. The heaviest infestation of these 

 grubs is found in dead pine or in logs that are piled in the woods, 

 if the work of the grub is noted in the logs, it will be seen the.t 

 they make their exit from the wood on its upper side, and as the 

 holes from which they 'issue admit v/p.ter, the timber decays rapidly. 



The adult insect is a magnificent grayish beetle, finely mottled 

 with light brown and rather conspicuously dotted, especially on the 

 wing covers, with dark brown or nearly black. The body length of 

 the beetle varies from three-quarters to one and one-half inches. 

 The insect is remarkable for its enormous antennae, rriich ma,y 

 measure from two to three or more inches in length. 



