The southern pine beetle, which migrated to the eastern end of Suffolk County a decade ago ... and then they provide fodder ...

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

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.

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.