 Natural regeneration is often a good strategy to avoid Hylobius damage at sites where it can be practiced, but old spruce stands are often unstable and natural regeneration hence risky.Various natural enemies attack immature and adult pine weevils in the wild.Natural enemies include predatory beetles, insect killing fungi, microscopic insect killing worms (entomopathogenic nematodes) and a parasitic wasp, "Bracon hylobii".