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The Wenatchee World Online - Bug expert: Deep freeze may kill off forest pests

Beginning Dec. 12, and extending clear through Dec. 27, every day was colder than average, and many days it was significantly colder at Pangborn.

According to the National Weather Service data, most of those days were at least 10 degrees colder than average, and three were more than 20 degrees colder. The biggest departure from average came on Dec. 20, when it was 27 degrees colder than the combined average. That day’s low was minus 7, and the thermometer only climbed to 7 degrees above zero all day.

Many of the outlying areas were even colder, Mehmel said, especially at higher elevations, where the bugs live.

Mehmel said the last extended cold snap she can remember was during the winter of 1994-95. "It seemed like it never got above zero," she recalled. "And we didn’t have too much insect activity for a year or two after that. But they’re good at coming back. And you don’t want them to go away forever," she said.