Across six sites in Vermont’s forests, Savannah Ferreira and her team of trappers are on the lookout for six-legged invaders. If the rogues establish a stronghold here, they will pillage tree habitats ...

The invasive Polyphagous Shot-Hole Borer beetle is decimating thousands of trees across South Africa. Is it in your backyard?

"We want to protect the rest of Oregon for as long as possible to give communities more time to prepare." Officials 'shocked' ...

Vermont loves maples trees. So do these beetles that have wreaked havoc in Massachusetts. Here's how people are keeping them ...

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In Finland, forest stands damaged by the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) tend to concentrate in groups and form clusters, especially in mature Norway spruce forests close to previous ...

Hot summers have made bark beetles a familiar menace in northern Europe, but a new twist is now clear. When these insects kill spruce, they also change the air within the forest, raising daytime ...

A new study from Stockholm University reveals that spruce bark beetles, already infamous for killing millions of trees in Sweden, are also changing the forest microclimate. Using a combination of ...

As in continental Europe, forests in Britain are also threatened by the eight-toothed bark beetle – a small but voracious beetle that reproduces extremely quickly under favorable conditions, writes ...