Having hundreds of roundworms living inside your abdomen may seem like a bad thing. But for horned passalus beetles, hosting wriggly nematode larvae may benefit them and the eastern U.S. forests they ...

A. Beetles are indeed a serious problem, mainly because they spend most of their life tunneling inside the wood, making the wood very weak. Of course, the holes they make to the outside are not very ...

Q: I understand that any home can be susceptible to termites, but what about wood-boring beetles? We have a crawl space under our house. Anything we should look for? A: There are about a half dozen ...

'In the fall, when temperatures are cool, the best action to take is to prune back birch limbs, especially those showing ...

As I walked past a small, damaged cottonwood tree, I noticed an iridescent movement. It was a black beetle with numerous glimmering dots, even on its large eyes. It had an oval body, a blunt head and ...

There has been a recent increase in pine tree deaths reported in a swath extending from Tallahassee heading north to Thomasville.

Q:I am a homeowner in San Francisco with a 100-plus-year-old Victorian. I've had some major renovations done on the house and am almost finished but have a wood beetle problem that needs to be taken ...

When Tracey Hartley moved to Colorado in 2007, she was saddened by the thousands of dead standing trees in forested areas near her Golden home — the familiar sign of the destruction caused by the ...

Perry Cadman couldn’t drive through the Colorado mountains anymore without dismay over the toll the mountain pine beetle has taken. An epidemic infestation has claimed about 3 million acres of ...

Even for insects, wood is a tough food source as it contains hard substances such as cellulose. To help make wood more palatable, some wood-feeding insects are assisted by symbiotic microorganisms ...

Q: We have a wood floor in our home that repeatedly has termite mud holes and piles of sawdust showing up. The contractor has replaced some of the wood, but the problem continues. Is there any ...