Invasives have largely wiped out the American chestnut and elm, caused “hell” with the beech, and are now wreaking havoc on ...

Strategies include: Sanitation: Quick removal of diseased trees and symptomatic branches is necessary in managing this disease. Removal of the damaged parts reduces breeding sites for the elm bark ...

“Removing Dead Trees Helps Fight Elm Disease,” by Jerry Huddleston (July 25, 1960) In hundreds of university laboratories botanists are seeking cures for the beetle-borne fungus which ...

Work to protect about 1,400 trees from the spread of elm disease will begin today, a council has said. Brighton & Hove City ...

At the time, there were roughly 77 million elms tree in North America. By 1989, more than 75 percent had been lost to the disease, which is spread by the elm bark beetle. But not this tree. According ...

The Banded elm bark beetle (Scolytus schevyrewi) has the ability to attack, weaken and directly or indirectly kill a broad range of trees. It has been found in twenty-one Wyoming counties. Traps have ...

A city's tree inoculation programme to tackle the ... which is spread by the elm bark beetle. But the council said it cannot prevent the spread through root transmission. Areas which have been ...

Elm disease, which is caused by a fungus and spread by elm bark beetles, has killed millions of trees in the UK over the past 50 years, according to the Woodland Trust. Follow BBC Sussex on ...