A damaging beetle species continues to be found in Pierce County, raising concerns for pine trees at Chambers Creek Regional ...

CFI were first recorded to be killing ... can attract beetles. He added that ensuring trees are properly watered can also help ward off the insects, as the water may help pine trees produce ...

While twig beetles traditionally don't kill trees on their own, they're now killing off trees already stressed by the pine beetle, as well as trees too small for the pine beetle to infest.

As the state's forests become weakened and stressed, they become more susceptible to insects and disease — even some that, at ...

For decades, Charlevoix's Shade Tree and Parks Commission has worked to grow and protect the urban canopy — planting more ...

The ice storm hit the Midwest in late March, bringing freezing rain and sleet to northern Lower Michigan. Icicles weighed ...

In Greece, fir and plane trees are drying out en masse, infected by fungi and possibly imported insects – How climate change ...

against the mountain pine beetle. The findings are published in the journal Plant, Cell & Environment. More information: Aziz Ullah et al, Alliance Between Conifer Trees and Endophytic Fungi ...

The beetles kill pine trees by boring into them to feed and reproduce, leaving behind large stands of dead trees in their wake. Pine beetles have always been a part of Rocky Mountain forests ...