The spruce bark beetle heads north as biologists and foresters work to slow their destructive spread
Sep 19, 2021 Sep 19, 2021 Updated Oct 24, 2022 An epidemic is creeping into Interior Alaska, but it is not attacking people. It is killing forests filled with mature white spruce trees. The culprit is ...
CLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany (AP) — Nestled in the spruce trees in the Harz mountains of northern Germany is a bark-eating pest not much bigger than a sesame seed. Known as “book printers” for the ...
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An international research team demonstrates that the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) uses volatile fungal metabolites of plant defense substances as important chemical signals in their ...
Once beetles enter a tree, both the larvae and the adults overwinter beneath the bark, Gale confirmed. According to Gale and ...
DENVER – Spruce beetle infestation may not be the wildfire culprit that experts have led Southwest Colorado to believe, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, ...
Researchers have successfully mapped the entire genome of the Eurasian spruce bark beetle. The breakthrough paves the way for new research into bark beetles and better prospects for effective pest ...
We usually acclimate plants grown indoors by leaving them outside in a spot protected from wind —thanks to a well-placed outbuilding — and too much sun, in the dappled shade provided by a huge black ...
Banner image: A forest in the San Juan range of the Rocky Mountains, with dead Engelmann spruce trees alongside live aspen trees. (Credit: Robert Andrus) Bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire alone are ...
The spruce bark beetle has already done as much damage to Sweden’s forests so far this year as in all of 2019, when the species ate through record amounts of wood in the largest Nordic economy.
The mass outbreaks of bark beetles observed in recent years have caused shocking amounts of forest damage throughout Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office in July 2022, more than 80% ...
Banner image: A forest in the San Juan range of the Rocky Mountains, with dead Engelmann spruce trees alongside live aspen trees. (Credit: Robert Andrus) Bark beetle outbreaks and wildfire alone are ...
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