Dead spruce trees are cropping up around Prince Edward Island this year, and service companies are seeing an increase in ...

Bark beetles have impacted nearly 80% of Colorado’s pine forests, and yet ecologists say the devastation is a sign of climate ...

The culprit is a tiny bug native to Alaska called the spruce bark beetle. The beetles have already devastated swaths of spruce forest south of the Alaska Range, including Cantwell.

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If you've spotted dead spruce trees around your neighbourhood, you're not alone. Some are being killed by the spruce bark beetle, and experts say not much can be done to stop them. CBC’s Connor Lamont ...

“The bark beetles currently killing millions of spruce trees every year in Europe are supported in their attacks by fungal associates,” said study co-author Jonathan Gershenzon, a biochemist ...

When metabolizing spruce bark, the insect's fungal partners release volatile compounds that bark beetles recognize through specialized olfactory sensory neurons Date: February 21, 2023 Source: ...

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 researchers focused specifically on areas of forest affected by spruce bark beetle outbreaks, which attack Engelmann spruce, where fires such as Papoose, West Fork and Little Sands burned in ...

The forest is struggling to cope with the largest bark beetle plague in 70 years. While the trees are suffering due to the heat and the drought, the pests are proliferating rampantly in the warm ...

image: 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 ...

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 ...