Do I gather that there is no reasonable prospect of re-establishing
Beech here, once /Orchestes/ has finished off all the existing trees? It
seems to me that the weevil must disappear from the province eventually,
once the food plant is gone, but that it could easily come back if
beeches are re-established.
If there were any hope, perhaps some seedlings could be started under
glass now with a view to planting them in suitable habitat with some
sort of mechanical protection from the weevil - a covering of some sort?
--- Peter Payzant