Not soon before the holiday season, Louisiana State University Agriculture Center reported that damaging pests are being found in pine trees in Louisiana forests. According to LSU AgCenter, the Ips ...

The southern pine beetle (SPB) (Dendroctonus frontalis) and black turpentine beetle (BTB) (Dendroctonus terebrans) are serious pests of pines in Florida’s natural, cultivated, and landscape areas.

Japanese black pine tree with a blue sky in the background - Mawaddah Fauziah/Getty Images Japanese black pine (Pinus thunbergii) is an incredibly striking, hardy tree with iconic long needles and ...

BISHOP, Calif. — Forest pathologist Martin MacKenzie strode forward on a narrow path through California’s mythic bristlecone pine forest in the White Mountains near the Nevada border, methodically ...

Witch's brooms are compact, rounded collections of short needles and small cones. They can sometimes make up the entire leafy crown of a tree. Staff at North Carolina State University are asking for ...

You may notice a pine sawfly on your pine trees this spring or summer. The pesky creatures are more disturbance than damage, but The News Tribune has gathered advice on what to do about them. A common ...

A late-March ice storm that left a 12-county area of northern Michigan a disaster area has left thousands of broken, damaged and fallen trees. And that is a vector for pests and disease. DNR officials ...

January's record high average temperature throughout Maine foreshadows a threat from a new pest that could attack the iconic trees spanning Maine's southern coast to the mountaintops of Acadia ...

A plague of tiny mountain pine beetles, no bigger than a grain of rice, has already destroyed 15 years of log supplies in British Columbia, enough trees to build 9 million single-family homes, and are ...

This list of stories illustrates the spread of insects like northern giant hornets, the presence of pine sawflies on local trees, and outbreaks of the California fivespined ips beetle in places like ...