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The forestry pest Great Spruce Bark Beetle (Dendroctonus micans) has been found in the Lake District, a routine survey by the Forestry Commission has discovered. The head of the Commission's Plant Health Service, Roddie Burgess, said, "It is not possible to state categorically how the spread has occurred. It might have been by natural means, such as beetle flight, or it might have occurred through the illegal movement of infested timber or wood debris such as branches or bark residues on timber wagons or harvesting machinery travelling from long-infested areas to the Lake District." Mr Burgess said 23 affected woodland sites have been found in the Lake District, and "once the scale of this new outbreak has been determined the Forestry Commission will be consulting woodland owners and wood processors about changes to the current statutory controls."