Purdue Landscape Report: We receive a large number of spruce samples each year at the Purdue Plant and ... causing dieback through a large portion of the tree. Besides needle death and drop, there are ...

So, what will happen without intervention is the spruce budworm has the potential to really kill a lot of trees. We don’t want dead and dying trees, it has implications for adding fuel to wildfires.

Driving through the Harz region in central Germany feels like entering an eerie post-apocalyptic landscape. Row after row of gray, dry naked trees stretch into the sky like a sea of brittle needles.

Red spruce, found in both mountain formations ... “What people will see is trees dying from parasites and not climate change,” Lapenas said. “But the truth is that they’re dying from ...

The lesser spruce bark beetle (Hylurgops palliatus) is a pest of coniferous trees. This pest usually attacks stressed or dying trees. It is native to Europe and has been found in three northeastern US ...

CHEYENNE – Crews from the city of Cheyenne Urban Forestry Division will begin spraying spruce trees the week of April 7 to prevent ips beetle infestation at several city parks and city-owned ...

An insect called the western spruce budworm continues to be the most widespread forest pest in Colorado, but a bark beetle ...

The insects can create fuel for wildfires by filling forests with dead and dying trees ... the needles of trees during its caterpillar stage. The report found the western spruce budworm ...