As she peeled back the bark with her ax, she accidentally squished a small black beetle. Across western North America, in millions of acres of pine forest, the story is the same. Drive through ...

Depending on where you live in North America, this is the work of mountain, western, or southern ... There are two types of pesticides for pine beetles -- bark surface sprays and systemic pesticides.

indicating a potential new threat to local pine forests[4]. The identification of multiple fungal species associated with this beetle further illustrates the complex relationships between bark ...

For the last 15 years or so, these bugs have been living it up.” So begins a new short-film series that investigates the story of the bark beetle outbreak in our western forests and shows how the U.S.

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 may have been a little smoky in the Distillery Hill area of Breckenridge on Tuesday as crews worked to complete pile burns ...

Species at risk of extinction due in part to the climate crisis Grizzly bears once roamed much of the western United States and may have ... but warmer winters are allowing pine bark beetles to expand ...