Indian Forest Records. 
[VOL. Vllt. 
12 
The Report on Forest Administration in Burma for 1911-12, states 
p. 27, para. 88, that the beehole borer (Duomitus ceramicus) appeared 
in the 5-year old plantations of Zigyun Reserve, “ about half the trees 
in the plantation were found to have been attacked and these were 
felled and burnt.” A note in the Reserve Journal dated 16th October 
1912 states that “ hitherto Zigyun teak has appeared quite free from 
the bee-hole borer, but within the last few months odd trees in the 
pole stage naturally grown and remote from plantations have been 
found badly attacked.” The writer examined these plantations in 
April, 1914, and found that the beeholing was not due to Duomitus 
ceramicus , but to previously unknown borers Phassus signifer [Hepia- 
lidae] and Haplohammus cervinus [Lamiidae.] 
2. Bhamo. 
The bores occurs in teak forests throughout the division and parti¬ 
cularly in the Shwegu sub-division on the right bank of the Irrawaddy. 
Beeholed timber is regularly obtained from the drainage areas of the 
Kaukkwe (especially from the Nansonti Reserve and adjacent forests), 
the Mole (particularly in forests drained by its tributary the Nampaung) 
and the Mosit (particularly from the Leiksin tributary). As a general 
rule most damage is met with in trees growing in low-lying evergreen 
areas, but in the Leiksin, trees growing on hills and ridges are more 
severely attacked than those found in ravines and small valleys, or in 
jungles where Bambusa Oliveriana predominates. [S. B., Dec., 1913.] 
The working plan for Mosit Reserve 1910-11 to 1939-40, p. 6, para. 
14, notes that teak plantations near Nampu are badly attacked and 
suggests that the pest is spreading as poles are more seriously attacked 
than mature trees. 
For details in the observation area established at Okkyi on the 
Kaukkwe stream, see pp. 71—76. 
3. Katlia. 
The borer is present throughout the division but most abundant 
in Mohnyin Reserve. Timber growing in moist forests in level or 
undulating country suffers far more than timber from hill forests, but 
this may not be due to the locality so much as to the fact that in the 
low-level forests teak forms a larger proportion of the crop. Beeholing 
seems to occur anywhere where teak is very numerous, provided the 
forest is fairly moist, but the drier forests such as Pile and Pyinde, 
although containing large numbers of teak poles, appear to be compara¬ 
tively free. In the plantations of Petsut, Nami, and Mohnyin Reserve, 
and in the Bilumyo regeneration block considerable damage has been 
done. [D. F. 0., Dec. 1913 ; S. B., Dec. 1913.] 
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