A thriving pine tree is a thing of beauty ... but they can also be harmful to beneficial insects. Systemic treatments are injected into the tree, and kill the beetles when they begin to feed.

Stemming the Southern pine beetle onslaught is one way to limit the amount of dead trees that lead to new growth and more ...

Allen and South Dakota Department of Agriculture & Natural Resources Forest Health Specialist John Ball spoke to a group of ...

It might be time to treat your trees to prevent pine beetle infestations in the. That’s according to US Forest Service Entomologist Kurt Allen, and Department ...

The mountain pine beetle is recognized as the most destructive of western forest insects, but the magnitude of this epidemic ... When adult beetles emerge from a tree in late spring, they search for a ...

This week on ID That Tree, Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to another Indiana conifer, one that is found natively on dry hillsides in two southern counties near the Ohio River, ...

The tree has a dense, highly resinous wood that is a formidable barrier to invasion by insects and bacteria ... The tallest bristlecone pine is but 60 feet tall, and most of its kind are much ...

In the lead-up to 25 December around eight million conifer trees including spruce, pine and fir ... gone on to make a spruce tree.' They are similar to their parasitoid wasp cousins, which develop in ...

Maintaining and observing a bird feeder throughout the winter can sound like a generous and kindly activity to help birds cope with the cold season. Though the seeds that we place on the feeder and ...