The spruce bark beetle heads north as biologists and foresters work to slow their destructive spread
Sep 19, 2021 Sep 19, 2021 Updated Oct 24, 2022 An epidemic is creeping into Interior Alaska, but it is not attacking people. It is killing forests filled with mature white spruce trees. The culprit is ...
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 ...
Spruce bark beetles killed broad swaths of forests on the Kenai Peninsula 20 years ago. Now the voracious little bugs are back — and this time they're decimating trees in Anchorage and the Valley. The ...
Dead spruce trees are cropping up around Prince Edward Island this year, and service companies are seeing an increase in calls to remove them. Some of the trees are being eaten and killed by the ...
Shiny black, bark-eating spruce beetles that kill trees are spreading northward through Colorado’s compromised forests, infesting another 136,000 acres this past year — worsening damage across 1.7 ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Conifer forests across Europe are under siege from a tiny threat ...
A spruce bark beetle infestation that began a few years ago in Southcentral Alaska is spreading in Anchorage, taking out hundreds of acres of trees, arborists and forest scientists say. “We’re cutting ...
For the first time, a research team has mapped out exactly what happens when spruce bark beetles use their sense of smell to find trees and partners to reproduce with. The hope is that the results ...
It is smaller than your fingernail, but this hairy beetle is one of the biggest single threats to the UK's forests. The bark beetle has been the scourge of Europe, killing millions of spruce trees, ...
Banner image: A forest in the San Juan range of the Rocky Mountains, with dead Engelmann spruce trees alongside live aspen trees. (Credit: Robert Andrus) Bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire alone are ...
The mass outbreaks of bark beetles observed in recent years have caused shocking amounts of forest damage throughout Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office in July 2022, more than 80% ...
Banner image: A forest in the San Juan range of the Rocky Mountains, with dead Engelmann spruce trees alongside live aspen trees. (Credit: Robert Andrus) Bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire alone are ...
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