Trees, especially pine trees, are in for challenging times. Although pine trees are relatively drought tolerant, ongoing drought, as we’ve experienced in Marin County for several years, has caused ...

Despite the damage incurred by recent hurricanes, notably Hurricane Michael in 2018, the pine tree industry in Florida still is a major contributor to the state’s economy. This industry includes the ...

Bob Hammon says there’s one word to describe western Colorado’s pinon forests. “Changing,” he said. Look around local pinon-juniper forests, and it’s easy to pick out red-needled pinon trees standing ...

I got a call a few years ago from one of my readers. His Paper Bark Birch was in severe decline. From what I could see, this two-foot-diameter tree was dying. I explained the dire situation of the ...

L A K E  A R R O W H E A D, Calif., June 26, 2004 -- In the San Bernardino mountains, the race is on between chain saws and bark beetles. The insect's larvae feed on pine trees rendering majestic ...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, Calif. (KFSN) -- Communities continue to struggle with dwindling water supplies. Now, the drought is creating perfect conditions for an insect that's threatening trees and ...

As he waits with his daughter for the school bus, Tom Langmead can hear the pine bark beetles munching on pine trees at High Oaks Park. “You can actually hear them as you're standing at the bus stop – ...

An international research team demonstrates that the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) uses volatile fungal metabolites of plant defense substances as important chemical signals in their ...

There is a low-key battle with bark beetles underway on the flanks of Aspen Mountain. Colorado State Forest Service workers marched down steep slopes two weeks ago, stapling thousands of pheromone ...

Ask fire fighters, foresters and environmentalists to find the culprit for two years' worth of California wildfires and their fingers would unerringly point at a creature smaller than a grain of rice ...

Comparisons of intraspecific spatial synchrony across multiple epidemic insect species can be useful for generating hypotheses about major determinants of population patterns at larger scales. The ...