The City of Cape Town is urging residents to attend a vitally important online information session about the invasive Polyphagous shot hole borer beetle. This came after the City informed residents ...

Samples taken from a Boxelder and Sweet Viburnum tree on a private property in Durbanville tested positive for the invasive ...

That pesky pest, the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB), has made its way to Durbanville and has nested in a ...

This variability could inform the development of hardier ash trees, resistant to both the invasive beetles and rising ...

researchers are working to identify and develop ash trees genetically able to withstand the beetles' onslaught and strategize how to restore ash to forests. The invasive emerald ash borer ...

The invasive emerald ash borer, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was first found in the United States in southeast Michigan in 2002. In the decades ...

Today, emerald ash borers can be found in at least 33 states, from Maine to Texas, where they have the potential to impact 21 different species of ash tree. Since the identification of the beetle in ...

In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle has spread east and west across ... threatening to make the tree species functionally extinct in North America. In response, researchers at Penn ...

Another study examined the characteristics of trees infested by the invasive wood-borer Aromia ... especially an insect, affecting the behavior or physiology of others of its species.