Agriculture officials in Marin County are alerting property owners to lookout for a tiny invasive beetle that attacks oak ...

Agriculture officials in Marin County are alerting property owners and arborists to be on the lookout for a tiny invasive beetle that attacks oak trees, ...

“Sawdust hairs”, “worm-like, dust fringes”, “toothpicks” - all phrases homeowners have used to describe ambrosia beetle damage. Gardeners are clever describing the protrusions they ...

A disease of redbay and other plants ni the laurel family, laurel wilt,The N.C. Forest Service has confirmed that laurel wilt ...

A recent experiment provides evidence of a bark beetle species' agricultural capability. The fruit-tree pinhole borer can suppress the growth of weed fungi and promote food fungi. Ambrosia beetles ...

Certain ambrosia beetles species engage in active agriculture. As social communities, they breed and care for food fungi in the wood of trees and ensure that so-called weed fungi spread less.

The regulatory method of integrated pest management includes preventing entry and establishment of foreign pests.

The alnus ambrosia beetle Xylosandrus germanus, also known as the black stem borer, was accidentally introduced by humans from its native east Asia to North America and Europe around the beginning of ...

The alnus ambrosia beetle Xylosandrus germanus, also known as the black stem borer, was accidentally introduced by humans from its native east Asia to North America and Europe around the beginning ...

Ambrosia beetles feed on special fungal coatings that grow in the tunnels they bore into old wood. To early naturalists, these coverings seemed like divine ambrosia, which is how the beetles got ...