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California drought, bark beetles killing the oldest trees on Earth. Can they be saved?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, where some of the the world's oldest trees live, scientists...
Have you seen pouches stapled to forest trees? They’re designed to trick ‘tree murderers’
Idaho Statesman via Yahoo News· 9 months agoBark beetles are only about the size of a grain of rice. But for such tiny critters, they can take a...
Campbell Vaughn: Beware pine bark beetles on the move
The Augusta Chronicle via Yahoo News· 1 year agoLast year’s floods, droughts and heat equaled a tough time for trees. Be on the lookout for stressed...
Danger lurks: Native pine bark beetles attack stressed or dying trees
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDespite the damage incurred by recent hurricanes, notably Hurricane Michael in 2018, the pine tree...
Bark beetles are eating through Germany's Harz forest. Climate change is making matters worse
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCLAUSTHAL-ZELLERFELD, Germany (AP) — Nestled in the spruce trees in the Harz mountains of northern...
How to detect and manage damaging pine bark beetles
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe southern pine beetle (SPB) (Dendroctonus frontalis) and black turpentine beetle (BTB) (Dendroctonus terebrans) are serious pests of pines in...
He Had a Vision: to Build an A-Frame Cabin Almost Entirely Out of Beetle Kill Pine
Dwell via Yahoo News· 3 months agoColorado has faced epidemic levels of bark beetles. Here’s how one construction company executive...
Report: New Mexico forests saw improved conditions in 2023
KRQE Albuquerque via Yahoo News· 1 month agoNEW MEXICO (KRQE) – After decades of dealing with bark beetles and devastating wildfires in 2022,...
Ancient trees that survived French wildfires are now being felled due to bug infestation
Euronews via Yahoo News· 6 months ago30,000 hectares of forest in south-west France burned in ferocious wildfires in 2022. Now they face...
Amid drought, stressed trees fall victim to the bark beetle
The Daily Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDead and dying piñon trees dot the slopes of northwest New Mexico, particularly in an area north of Cuba. For the past few years, the State Forestry Department has been monitoring the die off ...
