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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees produce antibodies against harmful fungi. But bark beetles absorb these antibodies and use them to their own advantage. And ...

Foresters will treat as many as 120,000 acres of lands on the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison national forests to limit the effects of the spruce beetle and aspen decline. The spruce beetle and ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. | The U.S. Forest Service says an outbreak of spruce beetles is spreading at an accelerating rate across hundreds of square miles of new forest in Colorado. Meanwhile, a massive ...

Spruce bark beetles don’t just tolerate their host tree’s chemical defenses—they actively reshape them into stronger antifungal protections. These stolen defenses help shield the beetles from ...

A new machine-learning system developed at the University of Alaska Fairbanks can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in ...

The Town of Vail will begin the removal of approximately 26 spruce trees in the vicinity of the Grand Hyatt in Cascade Village starting on Monday, Oct. 7. The dead and dying trees have been identified ...

Planting of new spruce trees is being banned in parts of East Anglia and South East England as part of new measures to limit the impact of an invasive beetle. The Ips typographus, or larger ...

ASPEN – Avalanche debris in Colorado’s high country could provide fresh breeding grounds for the forest-destroying bark beetle, but a U.S. Forest Service supervisor says there’s little the agency can ...