A composition which causes adult boring bark beetles to discontinue boring, discontinue laying eggs and become disoriented and bore out of the tree or cease boring altogether and die is described. Execution of an application defined by the application definition file may then be initiated by the selection, by the user, of the icon that is associated with the application definition file. These expensive stages have now been eliminated carrying out the preparation in connection with the use. In this manner, a more natural selection mechanism than that available using conventional pull-down lists of options is provided.