When downed trees are attacked by beetles, the wood becomes more flammable, demonstrating another way insects can alter the ...

Discoloration of wood. Sometimes the wet pocket has a grayish or other color that is different than the surrounding wood.

If you were to slice into one of those logs, you’d see a lovely blue stain seeping through the yellow wood. It’s a telltale sign of a tree that was killed by mountain pine beetles, and it has ...

Larvae eat rotting wood pulp. Interestingly, the Hercules beetle has a lifespan ... As such, you could find two beetles of the same species in different countries, and they’d have different ...

also known as black fire beetles, firebugs, or wood-boring beetles. Fire chaser beetles are usually the first to reach the scene, beating the firefighters and other first responders to the chase.

But the woodpecker prefers its mature and old-growth trees to be snags — because it loves to eat the wood-boring beetles that flock to large dead and moribund trees, responding to insect outbreaks ...