The Douglas-fir beetle impacted 21,000 acres in 2024, its largest total damage in almost 10 years, West noted. Western balsam bark beetle, which attacks subalpine fir and other species, is still the ...

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A voracious insect called the spruce budworm was ravaging Maine’s North Woods, killing mountainsides of balsam fir and red spruce. Climbing Katahdin in September 1980 ... And there’s the coming spruce ...

“Especially in bark beetles, longer ... ability to create sap and resin to defend against the insects. Beyond the beetle, the trees suffered an increase in defoliation, or the loss of needles or ...

This disease, impacting millions of acres across the Southeast, may stunt growth and increase risks from pests like bark beetles. MFC said Brown Spot can reduce tree vigor and may, in some severe ...

Besides, it is easy to handle and able to control weeds efficiently. The ingredient of Clear Pots Rexius is Douglas Fir bark that had been heat-treated, sterilized, and chopped into small ½” size.

ALPENA, MI - A northern Michigan utility is looking to dodge a requirement it issue $40 bill credits to customers who went days without power after the catastrophic ice storm in late March. Alpena ...

“Local spread is the carrying of fungal spores by a small beetle. There are three beetles in Saskatchewan that transmit Dutch Elm Disease; the native Elm Bark Beetle, Hylurgopinus rufipes – for those ...

Among others, these include insects causing forest damage in Finland, such as European spruce bark beetles, pine shoot beetles and conifer sawflies. The researchers point out that this trend may ...