“The beetles do make a difference,” says Hans Cornelissen at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Researchers already knew that, by killing trees, insect infestations in forests ...

If you were to slice into one of those logs, you’d see a lovely blue stain seeping through the yellow wood. It’s a telltale sign of a tree that was killed by mountain pine beetles, and it has ...

Emerald ash borers have become a major issue for many ash trees in parts of Maine.Maine Forest Service Entomologist Michael ...

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio — A large portion of the Asian Longhorned Beetle quarantine area in Clermont County is being removed by ...

also known as black fire beetles, firebugs, or wood-boring beetles. Fire chaser beetles are usually the first to reach the scene, beating the firefighters and other first responders to the chase.

The beetles never usually move far from their veteran trees. Females lay their eggs into slits within the bark and as larvae (a stage that takes just over two years) they feed on the wood. The full ...

But the woodpecker prefers its mature and old-growth trees to be snags — because it loves to eat the wood-boring beetles that flock to large dead and moribund trees, responding to insect outbreaks ...