The southern pine beetle, which migrated to the eastern end of Suffolk County ... The beetle penetrates the tree bark, ...

More wildfires could be in store for Long Island’s East End thanks to a tree-killing beetle. A wildfire ripped through about ...

The Bug That’s Eating the Woods.” “Small Pests, Big Problems: The Global Spread of Bark Beetles.” “Eighty-Nine Million Acres ...

Some of the pines that give the region its name carry bark as thick as three inches ... making it hard for pests like the Southern Pine Beetle to spread tree to tree. They remove hazardous ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Many southern Coloradans would tell ... they would stay healthy," said Johnson. Mountain Pine Beetles do not eat dead bark, so the wood on someone's house would be safe.

An insect called the western spruce budworm continues to be the most widespread forest pest in Colorado, but a bark beetle with ... In addition, mountain pine beetles continue to grow in numbers ...

and the bark-burrowing pests declined to more normal populations. An industry built around the blue-stained wood colored by the fungus the beetles carried into pine trees even struggled to survive.