Jul. 24—One of the reasons Glen Hemingson bought his home in Anchorage's Fairview neighborhood was the thick stand of spruce trees in the front yard. "It has the feeling of a forest," Hemingson ...

Historically, bark beetles — like the spruce beetle — and the trees they attack have co-evolved and cultivated a somewhat symbiotic relationship, with forests showing a relatively high rate of ...

A female attack spruce beetle lays between 80 and 150 eggs after boring below the spruce’s bark. About 20 percent of female attack spruce beetles attack and lay eggs in more than one tree.

Massive spruce beetle outbreak in Colorado is tied to drought, according to new CU-Boulder study. Published:10/10/2013 10/10/2013 . A new CU-Boulder study indicates the current spruce beetle epidemic ...

A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in ...

A highly-contiguous genome assembly of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus, provides insight into a major forest pest. Communications Biology , 2021; 4 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s42003-021-02602-3 ...

The spruce beetle is blamed for more tree mortality than any other pest. The total acreage impacted of spruce-fire forest impacted by spruce beetle since 2000 has reached 1.89 million acres of ...

The dead and dying trees have been identified as being infested with spruce beetle. Spruce beetle is a native forest insect that has infested isolated portions of Eagle County for more than 10 years.

DENVER (KDVR) — For the ninth consecutive year, the spruce beetle remains the most damaging forest pest in Colorado. To the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS), this isn’t a huge surprise. In ...

The spruce beetle affected 25,000 new acres of Engelmann in Colorado in 2019. And in recent years, the roundheaded pine beetle has been attacking the region’s ponderosa pines, impacting 22,000 ...

New way to spot beetle-killed spruce can help forest, wildfire managers Date: June 12, 2024 Source: University of Alaska Fairbanks Summary: A new machine-learning system can automatically produce ...

The study area is centered on the Susitna Lowlands in SC Alaska, a mosaic of mixed forest and wetlands, appearing in green and brown in the 2013–2015 Landsat −8 composite (a), respectively.