The spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis, has become a significant threat to large and overmature white and red spruce on islands and headlands along the Maine coast. The current outbreak of this ...

Planting of new spruce trees is being banned in parts of East Anglia and South East England as part of new measures to limit ...

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 ...

One thing is clear: the bark beetle epidemic is a major player in the condition of the state’s forests. Mountain pine beetle activity has slowed, but spruce beetle activity is on the rise—including 54 ...

The brown spruce longhorned beetle (Tetropium fuscum) is an invasive pest from Europe currently found in parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Canada. This insect likely arrived in North America in ...

The number of spruce bark beetles has decreased across nearly all of Estonia over the past year, according to the annual monitoring results of the Environment Agency. However, it is still too early to ...

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 U.S. Forest Service and other partner organizations will be undertaking mitigation efforts for spruce beetle-killed trees around the Seward Ranger District of the Chugach National Forest ...