The Lord Howe Island stick insect vanished from its home, but an effort at zoos in San Diego and Melbourne highlights the possibilities and challenges of conserving invertebrate animals. Lord Howe ...

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"Most Christmas trees are full of essential oils that we associate with the season. However, the fragrance of the Fraser Fir ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) – A “very serious and ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – Majestic hemlocks towering on dunes and along streams in Ottawa County may soon be a thing of the past if a tiny insect cannot be controlled. The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), a ...

As temperatures drop, holiday trees can occasionally shelter small insects like aphid nymphs or spider mites. Specialists ...

How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to ...

Welcome to our tree column, “Ask your local arborist.” Each month, arborists from the Davey Tree Expert Company in Menlo Park discuss a tree-related topic from general care and planting tips to how ...

This list of stories illustrates the spread of insects like northern giant hornets, the presence of pine sawflies on local trees, and outbreaks of the California fivespined ips beetle in places like ...

Maple trees in urban environments show signs of stress due to the urban heat island effect. Impervious surfaces like pavement retain heat and disrupt water absorption, stressing trees and making them ...

Entomologists have warned that European sawflies — invasive bugs that resemble wasps — are taking over pine trees in Washington's Pierce County, perhaps most well-known as the home of Mount Rainier ...

An "alarming" invasive insect has been found across further areas of Texas, infesting and killing trees. The invasive emerald ash borer (EAB) has been detected in Grayson, Hill, Hood, McLennan and ...