Another outdoors gathering period has closed and summer-like opportunities are ahead. Assessment, recording and grading are ...

Michigan forests are not as “pristine” as some in the media would have us believe. Nearly all Lake States forests are the ...

The disease is actually caused by two groups of invasive species: several varieties of elm bark beetle and two related ... crowd out other species. Beech leaf disease takes out the trunks before ...

And new threats keep coming: beech leaf disease ... to Dutch elm disease. And I’m planting a hemlock, which might just survive because of a new “biocontrol” — an introduced beetle ...

In a lot of cases, these critters can be allowed to run their course without too much concern but when it comes to pests like the elm leaf beetle, it requires a concerted effort to try and ...

Source: Ahto Agan Currently, two tree diseases are receiving particular attention in Estonia: ash dieback caused by Hymenoscyphus fraxineus and Dutch elm disease caused by ... to pathogens and pests.

The insect in the photo is a larva of the elm leaf beetle. These are leaf-chewing pests of elm trees. Adult beetles chew through the leaf, often leaving a shothole pattern behind, while the larvae ...

The fungus is primarily spread through the tree canopy by three species of beetle; the smaller European elm bark beetle ... City-owned elms with significant leaf death at the top of the tree ...

To prevent further spread, the city is removing trees in the area to help reduce beetle habitat. “City-owned elm trees with significant leaf death at the top of the tree, small elm trees ...

The elm-leaf beetle, Galeruca xanthomelœma, which is now seriously damaging elm-trees, was not known in the United States until 1837, and came probably from France, or Germany, where it had been ...