Most bark beetles lay eggs under the bark of trees that ... severing ducts that contain resin—the tree’s first line of defense. Ideally for the tree, the resin will simply flush the beetle ...
For the last 15 years or so, these bugs have been living it up.” So begins a new short-film series that investigates the story of the bark beetle outbreak in our western forests and shows how the U.S.
The spruce bark beetle heads north as biologists and foresters work to slow their destructive spread
It is killing forests filled with mature white spruce trees. The culprit is a tiny bug native to Alaska called the spruce bark beetle. The beetles have already devastated swaths of spruce forest ...
The Ips typographus, or larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle, is being blown over from France and damaging spruce trees. Pheromone traps are being used, and the commission is ...
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