Sep 19, 2021 Sep 19, 2021 Updated Oct 24, 2022 An epidemic is creeping into Interior Alaska, but it is not attacking people. It is killing forests filled with mature white spruce trees. The ...
Adult spruce beetles are larger (1/4") than most native bark beetle species and vary in color from black to reddish-brown. In June, pairs of adult beetles bore a circular entrance tunnel through the ...
1 Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czechia 2 Institute of Forest Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Zvolen, Slovakia Climate change-related ...
The house borer beetle likes to make an endless system of tunnels as it eats its way through wood. The process starts when an adult female lays eggs ... borer beetle finds spruce, pine, and ...
The Ips typographus, or larger eight-toothed European spruce bark beetle, is being blown over from France and damaging spruce trees. Pheromone traps are being used, and the commission is ...