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 ...

It's the most common tree in Douglas County, but it's also under threat from the mountain pine beetle. As Colorado Gov. Jared Polis sounds the alarm about pine beetle outbreaks, there are steps ...

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war. The mountain pine beetles, native insects to the Centennial State, have recently exploded in numbers in ...

Many of the once-green pine trees along roadways in Suffolk County have turned yellow and orange, evidence that they are dying. They're victims of the southern pine beetle, an invasive insect no ...

Climate change is hampering mountain pine beetle reproduction but also appears to slightly benefit the invasive insect in other ways, new University of Alberta research shows. On an apparent upside ...

Colorado's persistent drought and stretches of hot, dry weather are creating ideal conditions for one of the state's most destructive forest pests: the mountain pine beetle. The tiny insect, smaller ...

A dead pine in the Black Hills of South Dakota, June 2013. The pine has the characteristic popcorn-like pitch tubes indicating beetle infestation. Can you picture a sturdy stand of tall green pine ...

Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada that were wiped out by western pine beetles during the 2012-2015 megadrought won't recover to pre-drought densities, reducing an important storehouse for ...