Safeguarding your trees against pests is important to their health and longevity. Invasive species can wreak havoc by defoliating or infecting trees, and left untreated, can lead to loss of limbs and ...

Streetlights left on all night cause leaves to become so tough that insects cannot eat them, threatening the food chain, a study has found. “We noticed that, compared with natural ecosystems, tree ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Department of Forestry spent three years collecting more than 900,000 seeds from populations of Oregon ash trees throughout the state. The ODF employees completed ...

NORTH CAROLINA, N.C. (WTVD) -- An invasive insect species is posing a serious threat to a popular kind of tree in the Carolinas. The Crape Myrtle Bark Scale is a felt scale insect that has a main diet ...

DILWORTH — After an ill-fated arrival last spring, the emerald ash borer is burrowing down for winter on the Minnesota side of the river. The invasive pest, native to Asia, was first discovered in ...

An "alarming" invasive insect has been found across further areas of Texas, infesting and killing trees. The invasive emerald ash borer (EAB) has been detected in Grayson, Hill, Hood, McLennan and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) – A “very serious and ...

The invasive spotted lanternfly population has increased, aided by the presence of the tree of heaven. Tree of heaven, another invasive species, serves as the preferred host for the spotted lanternfly ...

EMMET COUNTY, Iowa (KTIV) - The Emerald Ash Borer insect has been confirmed all over Iowa. On Thursday, Oct. 17, the tree-killing insect was confirmed in all of Iowa’s 99 counties, according to a news ...