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Indian Forest Records . 
[Vol. VIII. 
Tenasserim Circle. 
21. Shwegyin and Nyaunglebin. 
In 1905 reported by Divisional Forest Officer to be uncommon. 
Stebbing [1905, p. 12] records tbe borer from “ the Shwegyin plantation 
on the Salween River.” In 1913 the Divisional Forest Officer noted, 
“ this division is not one of those which has regularly yielded bee-hole 
timber in the past, and on the contrary I think the mature timber at 
present being extracted by the lessees is almost immune from its attacks. 
Nevertheless since the year 1907 every officer inspecting the planta¬ 
tions [to the south of the Yenwe Range] has annually complained bit¬ 
terly of the damago being done by this pest.” 
“ The small Impatie Reserve is practically free from the teak-borer, 
but in the Upper and Lower Kanyin Myoung Reserves, to the south of 
the Impatie the teak is very bee-holey ” [F. C., Oct., 1913]. These 3 
reserves lie in the plains between hill forests on the west and paddy 
plains on the east. The Impatie is swampy. 
With regard to the Nyaunglebin Working Circle the Divisional Forest 
Officer notes in 1919 “ The timber firms say that the presence of the 
borer is very irregular ; for instance teak trees in the outer foot-hills, 
Aingdon-Kun compartments, north of the Tonkan Chaung, are very 
badly bee-holed, where as those in the upper and middle reaches of the 
Kunchaung are very much less so ; and similar differences occur over 
most of the hill forests. The outer foot-hill teak forests of the Aingdon- 
Kun Reserve burn over early in the season from spread of fire from paddy 
fields, whereas the middle Kun forests burn over later and consequently 
more fiercely.” The above mentioned forests occupy low hills, 500-1,000 
feet, extending in a south-easterly direction from the crest of the Pegu 
Yomas, rainfall +100. 
With reference to planted teak the Divisional Forest Officer, Nyaung¬ 
lebin, notes that in the Mogaung plantations which have been fire-protect¬ 
ed since their foundation up to 1919, “ the bee-hole borer is extraordi¬ 
narily bad, in fact many parts are ruined by it.” The Dodan and 
Chikku plantations were similarly protected during their early years (and 
the latter continuously up to 1919), but the borer is not so prevalent 
as in the Mogaung plantations, the localities being drier throughout 
than the Mogaung plantations which have considerable evergreen forests 
in the neighbourhood. The R. F. A. for 1908-09, p. 30, para. 61, 
notes “ the beehole borer is present in large numbers in the plantations 
at Chikku and that a considerable amount of damage is being done. 
The pest is spreading to the adjoining reserves, where teak trees of the 
lower age classes are being attacked.” 
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