Dealing with beetle kill pine trees? This video guides you through the process of removing them and making the most out of the wood. Discover how to manage the blue stain in the pine logs, turning ...

The Bug That’s Eating the Woods.” “Small Pests, Big Problems: The Global Spread of Bark Beetles.” “Eighty-Nine Million Acres ...

Participants at last week’s annual Michigan Society of American Foresters conference in Bellaire discussed how bark and ...

The pest is none other than the mountain pine beetle. After a roughly decade-long ... An industry built around the blue-stained wood colored by the fungus the beetles carried into pine trees ...

attended one of Blue Spring’s Firefly nights. “A volunteer gave a pretty entertaining talk on fireflies in Florida — fireflies are a beetle, there are about 2,000 varieties, 55 or 56 live in ...

Even with less bureaucracy and fewer environmental safeguards, stimulating an industry that’s in the doldrums won’t come easy, according to foresters and businessmen.

Also known as blue stain fungus for the stain it leaves in the wood of ... The current outbreak of mountain pine beetle has destroyed more than 16 million hectares of forest in B.C. – roughly twice ...