Jun 11, 2018 — ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) A bark beetle that has devastated southern pine forests is moving north as the climate warms, and new research suggests cool weather could amplify its attacks.

Reports of beetle-killed mass pine die-offs were also described as early as 1803 in Southeastern states Tennessee and Georgia, according to a 1992 report from the Georgia Forestry Commission.

Every year since 2010, they’ve watched one outbreak after another of the California fivespined ips, a little brown bark beetle that likes to feast on ailing pine trees.

More wildfires could be in store for Long Island’s East End thanks to a tree-killing beetle. A wildfire ripped through about 600 acres of the vulnerable Pine Barrens just one month ago ...

Mountain Pine Beetle Damagein in Yellowstone National Park. Don Becker/U.S. Geological Survey When a bark beetle outbreak started killing off decades-old pine trees in a research forest in western ...

Even more unfortunately, the pine beetle isn't the only organism knocking out whitebark pines. An invasive fungus known as "white pine blister rust" is also killing off trees in the Western US.

Wellington landcape and forestry officials are blaming beetles for the dwindling population of the village’s pine trees. A type of pine bark beetle, called the Ips engraver beetle, lives in the ...

Pine beetles, which consist of about five species, can sense when a pine or eucalyptus tree is stressed by smelling its bark or a cut. Droughts, trimming and inadequate watering increase the ...

A newly-discovered species of tree-killing bark beetle, Dendroctonus mesoamericanus Armendáriz-Toledano and Sullivan, has been described in a paper published online in the Annals of the ...

Since the late 1990s the mountain pine beetle, or Dendroctonus ponderosae, has attacked and killed hundreds of millions of commercially valuable pine trees in British Columbia, Alberta, and parts ...

This Sept. 20, 2013 photo provided by the USDA Forest Service shows a southern pine beetle completing metamorphosis into an adult that will attack a pine tree, at Kisatchie National Forest, in ...