The larval stage, also known as the grub, is usually the longest-lasting and most important part of the beetle’s lifespan.

The female chooses. Peregrines generally mate for life, returning each year to the same area and even the same nest. However, the female will accept a new mate if the first is killed. There’s ...

Scientists have recorded bark beetle stress chirps and played them back into trees to disrupt and deter other bark beetles. Scientists are trying to developing an artificial beetle to capitalise ...

Unseasonably warm and dry winter giving Bark Beetles in the Sierra a second lease on life Record 129 million trees dead in California due to drought, bark beetle Political leader fears funding for ...

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Spring's here, and so are the critters.

They ‘go crazy’ in even-aged ponderosa pine forests, which is the makeup of that area The U.S. Forest Service is concerned that a bark ... beetles of concern in our region have one year life ...

Laura Sims is an assistant professor for forest health at Louisiana tech and she is concerned that the drought last summer ...

Most alert and thoughtful senior marketing executives are by now familiar with the concept of the product life cycle. Even a handful of uniquely cosmopolitan and up-to-date corporate presidents ...

European spruce bark beetle Ips typographus: The newly hatched young adult is still in the so-called pupal chamber at the end of the tunnel it created as a larva. It is surrounded by spores of a ...

It is killing forests filled with mature white spruce trees. The culprit is a tiny bug native to Alaska called the spruce bark beetle. The beetles have already devastated swaths of spruce forest ...

The Ips typographus, or larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle, is being blown over from France and damaging spruce trees. Pheromone traps are being used, and the commission is ...