Oct 11, 2024; Spruce Pine, NC, USA; David Brown-Chavez fills buckets of water from a creek to flush toilettes at his sister's apartment near the community of Spruce Pine.

Adult pine weevils appear on the host tree throughout April and May as they fly or crawl to the tips of pine and spruce trees. The female chews out holes, deposits her eggs, and then seals the ...

Pine, fir, and spruce are strongly antimicrobial, and anti-fungal. The pitch has more concentrated amounts of these substances than the needles and bark. Internal use of the pitch in large amounts ...

“We have the balsam fir, scotch pine, white pine, red pine, and white spruce," Kretser explains. I’ve never gotten a Christmas tree just for myself, so I ask Kretser what kind she recommends.

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the Family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the earth. In ...

Dwarf blue spruce becomes mound-shaped 3 to 5 feet high and 5 feet wide. Needle length and hue look much like the tree form Colorado Blue Spruce. Now comes the quiz.