An Erie artist has transformed an ash tree in the front yard of a Loveland home from beetle-damaged timber into a piece of art. Chrissy Allison, who has lived in the home just north of the Benson ...

In all, there are 17 tree species that can be killed by the shothole borer beetle, Woodward noted, but the list does not include the redwood that is ubiquitous in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

The ash trees that once lined Wildwood Drive in Dix Hills are gone, and according to experts, they won't be the last to go.

The shothole borer is a small beetle that can kill an entire tree by boring round holes the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen into a tree’s bark. A beetle is shown in an entry hole above.

In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle has spread east and west across the U.S. and Canada, killing tens of millions of ash trees, causing one of the costliest forest insect invasions to date.

Fewer than two percent of North America’s bark beetle species attack trees, but those that do have killed billions of ...

The emerald ash borer lifecycle begins with females laying up to 100 eggs in a single tree. Within one to three years, the beetle larvae have fed on the wood beneath the bark enough to kill the tree.

Shaftsbury Tree Warden David Mance updated the Select Board on the problem at a recent meeting. The board intends to create a ...

The emerald ash borer was detected in June in a small area in northeast Littleton, raising concerns as the beetle continues to spread. Evan Kruegel speaks with experts about how to protect trees ...

This came after the City informed residents that samples taken from a Boxelder and Sweet Viburnum tree on a private property in Wellway Park in Durbanville tested positive for the Polyphagous shot ...

That pesky pest, the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB), has made its way to Durbanville and has nested in a Boxelder and Sweet Viburnum tree on a private property. The City has ...