Forestry officials in the US are releasing non-native species of parasitic wasps into our forests by the thousands, but there ...

Though the focus of his expertise is firmly rooted underground, Victor Lucero spends many hours each year working for the New Mexico Forestry Division from the air. Every week from mid to late June ...

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 ...

Nature gives rise to fascinating adaptations, which can sometimes lead to organisms living in some strange situations. The relationship between bark beetles, spruce trees, and a type of fungus is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pine beetles are making a comeback and killing ponderosa pines across large swaths of Colorado forests, especially along the state's Front Range, as seen here near Interstate 70 and Soda Creek Rd in ...

Just before the first snow, I went for a walk in the woods near our house. It’s a damp and mossy mixed wood full of the usual suspects: cedar, white pine, balsam, birch, beech, the occasional maple ...

Dec. 11 (UPI) --U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists intercepted a potentially destructive bark beetle from the Ivory Coast at the Detroit Metropolitan airport, the agency ...

DETROIT — For the first time in the U.S., a bark beetle species that could be "potentially destructive" was discovered in Detroit, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The beetle ...