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 ...

Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before any visible signs of tree mortality appear, a recent study shows. Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before ...

Look at a tree damaged by a bark beetle, and the weaving tunnels might look like an alien language. For a tree already stressed by drought or other factors, it can spell doom. Dense forests are often ...

A new machine-learning system can automatically produce detailed maps from satellite data to show locations of likely beetle-killed spruce trees in Alaska, even in forests of low and moderate ...

The Town of Vail will begin the removal of approximately 26 spruce trees in the vicinity of the Grand Hyatt in Cascade Village starting on Monday, Oct. 7. The dead and dying trees have been identified ...

Far from being defenceless, plants have acquired all kinds of weird and wacky ways to protect themselves against pests and predators. Some, according to a study in the Journal of Chemical Ecology, ...

CHEYENNE – Crews from the city of Cheyenne Urban Forestry Division will be begin spraying spruce trees next week to prevent ips beetle infestation at several city parks and city-owned properties.

Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before any visible signs of tree mortality appear, a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. Led by Dr Samuli Junttila, ...