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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Then their offspring — spruce beetle larvae — feed on the tree’s phloem tissue, the sometimes green, sappy layer just below that bark. It’s also the layer that takes nutrients around the tree.

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 ...

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 ...

Since the mid-1990s, the mountain pine beetle has affected roughly 80%, or about 3.4 million acres, of ponderosa-lodgepole pine in Colorado, according to the Colorado State Forest Service.

More information: Eva Plath et al, Dieback of spruce plantations: Deadwood stands and management heterogeneity enhance beetle diversity and habitat connectivity, Forest Ecosystems (2024). DOI: 10. ...

If you like viewing aspen trees as they make Colorado colorful in the fall, we have good news. But if you like hillside forests of spruce and pine ...

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.

DENVER (AP) — An annual aerial survey of forest health in Colorado shows the mountain pine beetle epidemic is slowing dramatically, but the spruce beetle outbreak is expanding, forest officials ...

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 ...