The beetle is said to have killed 80,000 oak trees from Mexico to ... chief of forestry for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, on Monday, May 6. New evidence indicates some oak trees in ...

New evidence indicates some oak trees in East and Rice Canyon and Whitney Canyon in Newhall just north of the junction of the 5 and 14 freeways have been infected, said Durbin, who did not know ...

Fire-intolerant trees with far less ecological value — maple, beech, basswood, black gum, tulip trees — have risen to replace the oak, hickory and pine forests, which need regular fire to open ...

This new kind of beetle pest with origins in the southeast Arizona mountains has only been in Southern California for 20 years and the region has not adapted to the danger. The beetle is said to have ...

It’s less than a half-inch long but it can fell a giant oak tree in no time. The goldspotted oak borer, GSOB or Agrilus auroguttatus, is a 0.4-inch bullet-shaped beetle with six golden spots on ...