In response to warmer temperatures, mountain pine beetles start their flight season more than a month earlier than historically reported, and fly more than twice as long. When adult beetles emerge ...

The insecticide, bifenthrin, will be used to prevent the spread of adult Western pine beetles. The beetles are set to soon migrate from dead trees in the recreation area to live ones, and will use ...

Adult beetles bore through bark and grow larvae in galleries they create in the trunk. “Southern pine beetle is usually not that much of an issue, but when we get to epidemic levels, they will ...

Then the larvae begin to eat through the wood; once the larvae are mature, they bore exit holes for the adult beetles. The house borer beetle finds spruce, pine, and larch woods particularly tasty.

Thousands of acres of trees have been killed by the southern pine beetle in the 10 years since they arrived in Suffolk County, foresters say, heightening the risk of wildfires by generating heavy ...

It is increasingly threatened by climate change, which is leading to increased fires and mountain pine beetle outbreaks. Like most imperiled species, the tree is also threatened by habitat destruction ...

Following litigation by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the endangered Miami tiger beetle.