Key Points In the fall, clean up roses, add mulch around the plants, and water during especially long dry spells.Do not ...

Conservationists have been fighting a battle for the trees since 1996, when lax packaging regulations introduced an invasive ...

"Dive into Germany’s Harz National Park—one of just 16 national parks in the country—as it battles a massive bark beetle outbreak. Decades of spruce monocultures (planted to fuel centuries of mining) ...

Ireland has so far been spared the ravages of the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, which has killed hundreds of millions of spruce across Europe in just the last decade. But the insect is now edging ...

The Spruce Site Assessment grant will help woodland owners to evaluate their spruce trees, estimate felling costs and plan for early removal before potential infestations of Ips typographus. Ips ...

Hot summers have made bark beetles a familiar menace in northern Europe, but a new twist is now clear. When these insects kill spruce, they also change the air within the forest, raising daytime ...

A new study from Stockholm University reveals that spruce bark beetles, already infamous for killing millions of trees in Sweden, are also changing the forest microclimate. Using a combination of ...

Semiochemical-baited traps are pivotal in integrated pest management (IPM) in agricultural and forestry systems (Gut et al., 2004; Witzgall et al., 2010); nevertheless, translating trap catches ...

The government’s world-leading eradication programme has successfully eradicated the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle from all outbreak sites in England that were identified in 2021, it has been ...

As in continental Europe, forests in Britain are also threatened by the eight-toothed bark beetle – a small but voracious beetle that reproduces extremely quickly under favorable conditions, writes ...

The government is using drone and sniffer dogs to fight back against a beetle which is threatening to destroy trees across the UK after wreaking havoc in Europe. The spruce bark beetle, also known as ...