As she peeled back the bark with her ax, she accidentally squished a small black beetle. Across western North America, in millions of acres of pine forest, the story is the same. Drive through ...

A mountain pine beetle crawls on the bark of a pine tree ... burrowing into pine trees across the Western Canadian boreal, ...

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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 beetle outbreak happening now in Narraguinnep Canyon ...

For the last 15 years or so, these bugs have been living it up.” So begins a new short-film series that investigates the story of the bark beetle outbreak in our western forests and shows how the U.S.

Much has been said about mountain pine beetles in recent months as wildfires take their annual toll on Western Canada’s boreal forest. One researcher says, though, that while they can dry out ...

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 ...

Brandon Loomis At the time, Hofstetter (a forest entomologist) was testing strains of the fungus Beauveria bassiana as a weapon against bark beetles, which had become the scourge of drought-stricken ...

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 ...

Part two in our series on the park takes us into the backcountry, where predator and prey form a delicate balance in a great ecosystem.

A new report shows how human activity has caused wildlife populations to shrink worldwide by an average of 73% over the past ...

A western blot is a laboratory method used to detect specific protein molecules from among a mixture of proteins. This mixture can include all of the proteins associated with a particular tissue ...