The report, created in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, is based on aerial surveys to map insect and disease activity ... Other culprits include bark beetles, Piñon ips, Western Spruce ...

The acres affected by the balsam bark beetle held steady at 27,000, but more of those trees die. Other pests like the spruce budworm can damage trees but don’t necessarily kill them, West said.

Wildfires are burning through thousands of acres of forest in Northern Minnesota, damaging buildings and forcing residents to ...

The first and most consequential of those infestations involved spruce bark beetles in the Bowron valley, to the east of Prince George. As recently reported by The Tyee, that infestation triggered ...

Damage was caused by bark beetles, which burrow into the tree and end up killing it, and other insects like the western spruce budworm, which defoliate the trees. The New Mexico Forestry Division ...

Some others include bark beetles, Piñon ips, Western Spruce budworm, and Ponderosa needleminer. The amount of forest and woodland acres impacted by drought and heat last year decreased by 65% ...

To save oak trees, UC Cooperative Extension is organizing a GSOB Blitz, a community-powered effort to detect and map goldspotted oak borer infestations, in June.

The spruce budworm is a native forest insect causing concern across Minnesota’s coniferous forests since at least 1954.

It also has the potential to stunt tree growth and increase risk from pests such as bark beetles. “Just in the last few days, the agency started receiving calls, and the disease seems to be ...

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