A thriving pine tree is a thing of beauty ... Systemic treatments are injected into the tree, and kill the beetles when they begin to feed. Systemic treatments are less likely to negatively ...

When adult beetles emerge from a tree in late spring, they search for a living pine tree, attack "en masse" and kill it, start excavating egg galleries within a day, and lay eggs within a few days.

Even the few species that do kill trees tend to target highly stressed ones. The mountain pine beetle is the bad bug of the bunch. Given the right conditions, it can ravage one healthy tree after ...

Experts say the southern pine beetle has killed about 80% of the trees in Napeague State Park. NewsdayTV's Shari Einhorn reports. Credit: Newsday/Steve Pfost; Photo Credit: Newsday / Steve Pfost ...

Thousands of acres of trees have been killed by the southern pine beetle in the 10 years since they arrived in Suffolk County, foresters say, heightening the risk of wildfires by generating heavy ...

but warmer winters are allowing pine bark beetles to expand their range within Yellowstone, more rapidly infesting and killing the trees that produce these nuts. Fire suppression and an invasive ...

A beetle that has killed millions of ash trees in the eastern U.S. and parts of the South has been detected in Johnson County. The Kansas Department of Agriculture said Monday that the emerald ash ...

“Blue stain in the tree is a clear indication that this tree had a mountain pine beetle,” said Moore. Pine beetles kill trees, drying them out, and making them the perfect fuel for a fir ...

Because of those factors the pine beetles were able to infest ... "We deal with everything from avalanche, rock slide, tree fall and beetle kill — (which) has been an issue on some of the ...

A number of conservation areas on the Vineyard are receiving state funding to help prevent invasive species from degrading ...