The 40-foot Ponderosa pine smashes into the ground, felled by a Bureau of Land Management crew. Although the tree looked green and healthy, it was well on its way to being killed by hundreds of tiny ...

A discovery by scientists at Montana State University Billings may help forest managers battle the next epidemic of bark beetles. Research at the university found that a specific molecule, as well as ...

A report from the Colorado State Forest Services showed that trees in Colorado's front range are being killed by bark beetles. FOX31's Ashley Michels spoke with an expert on how this can affect the ...

They ‘go crazy’ in even-aged ponderosa pine forests, which is the makeup of that area The U.S. Forest Service is concerned that a bark beetle outbreak happening now in Narraguinnep Canyon might make ...

Phoretic mites are small arachnids that exploit the mobility of bark beetles to disperse between habitats. These mites attach themselves to their hosts during specific developmental stages and are ...