DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources have announced appointments to the newly created Ponderosa Mountain Pine Beetle Task Force. The Ponderosa ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane's urban forest is facing a significant challenge due to a pine bark beetle outbreak, which has resulted in the removal of at least 200 Ponderosa trees. Urban Forester Katie ...

Rove beetles have evolved a neat trick to survive. They cloak themselves in ant pheromones, allowing them to enter and remain undetected within ant colonies. But it comes with a catch. Once a rove ...

Life may look like a paradise for beetles living in ant colonies. Plump, wriggling ant larvae and helpless eggs sit waiting to be devoured, while hundreds of thousands of ants stand at the ready to ...

Some scientists and Colorado residents are raising concern that the state’s messaging and management of beetle-killed forests do not align with the published research on the interaction between dead ...

The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) was first identified as an invasive species in the US in 2002. It is now found in over 30 states. These invasive beetles kill ash trees in just a few short ...

A small beetle is responsible for the death and decline of billions of ash trees in North America, and the race is on to stop it from causing further damage. The USDA is hoping to spread the word so ...

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war. The mountain pine beetles, native insects to the Centennial State, have recently exploded in numbers in ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — After the city removed nearly 200 pine trees from public parks and golf courses due to bark beetle infestations, Spokane homeowners need to know how to protect the pine trees in their ...