Bark beetles can destroy spruce forests by converting the trees' defences into even more toxic substances, scientists ...

Spruce bark beetles hijack their host tree’s chemical defenses, transforming them into potent weapons against fungal threats.

Spruce bark beetles don’t just tolerate their host tree’s chemical defenses—they actively reshape them into stronger ...

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck ...

Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before any visible signs of tree mortality appear, a recent study shows. Bark beetle-infested spruce trees begin to dry out already before ...

Spruce bark beetles killed broad swaths of forests on the Kenai Peninsula 20 years ago. Now the voracious little bugs are back — and this time they're decimating trees in Anchorage and the Valley. The ...

Dead spruce trees are cropping up around Prince Edward Island this year, and service companies are seeing an increase in calls to remove them. Some of the trees are being eaten and killed by the ...

Ireland has so far been spared the ravages of the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle, which has killed hundreds of millions of spruce across Europe in just the last decade. But the insect is now edging ...

Bryan Hankinson, a fall 2014 CU-Boulder student who graduated magna cum laude, developed his honors thesis by investigating the relationship between an increase in spruce bark beetle population and a ...

Training one’s eye to identify trees is a fun way to connect with the world around us and can be useful for making home landscape selections. Trees are often identified using leaf shape and color, ...

Spruce bark beetles use the plant defense compounds in spruce bark as a protective mechanism. After feeding, they metabolize ...

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