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 ...

If you spot tiny holes and piles of sawdust on your tree, bark beetles could be the culprit. Unfortunately, the solution ...

CODY — Forests throughout the Rocky Mountains will have an additional $40 million next year to deal with vast swaths of timber killed or infested by bark beetles, but it is not yet clear what that ...

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has investigated how these plant defenses ...

Bark beetles moving between trees routinely carry two fungi that are responsible for the Dutch elm tree disease outbreak.

Adult spruce bark beetles in their galleries in the bark of a Norway spruce tree. The beetle in the middle is infected with the fungus Beauveria bassiana. Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds ...

While bark beetles have been slowly infesting trees in Aspen, winter won’t offer any respite. Aspen is currently home to the Douglas-fir beetle, the spruce beetle, the mountain pine beetle, Ips ...

After the city removed nearly 200 pine trees from public parks and golf courses due to bark beetle infestations, Spokane ...

FORT COLLINS, Colorado – Bark beetles that have killed millions of acres of lodgepole pines throughout the West have been found in pines in Fort Collins. Experts haven’t determined how the beetles ...

On the northwest corner of Manito Park, dozens of ponderosa pines appear to stand strong. Joggers and dog walkers weave through the towering trunks on their morning routes, and gray squirrels run ...