There are seven species of pine native to Florida, ... All five pine bark beetles feed and breed in the inner bark of pine trees. It is here the insect will go through its four life stages; ...

Native Pine Bark Beetles are found under the bark of local pines. The location on the tree will help determine which of the five species on native beetles is being viewed.

Extreme drought and bark beetles now threaten California's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, home to Methuselah, a 4,853-year-old bristlecone pine.

The herbivores in this study were large pine weevils (Hylobius abietis L.), common pests in European coniferous forests that feed on tree bark and kill young seedlings.Clearcutting of forests ...

An indirect cause of pine decline in the years following a hurricane is infestation by bark beetles. As the name implies, bark beetles feed on the inner bark layers of trees which contain phloem ...

Whitebark pine trees can live more than 1,000 years, ... the trees have proven vulnerable to bark beetles that have killed millions of acres of ... The species is not commercially harvested, ...

Trees with smoother bark are better at repelling attacks by mountain pine beetles, which have difficulty gripping the slippery surface, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder.

PORTLAND, Ore.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed threatened species protection today for the whitebark pine. The pine occurs at high elevations across seven western states, including Oregon ...

After drought, bark beetles killing Denver trees Bark beetles are killing pine trees in the Denver area following the 2021 drought. To stream 9NEWS on your phone, you need the 9NEWS app.

The whitebark pine is a hardy tree that grows in an area stretching from British Columbia, Canada south to parts of California and east to Montana. It's a keystone species in its subalpine and ...

First, scientists used a 150-year-old whitebark pine tree in Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest to sequence the first whitebark pine genome, mapping out 87% of the genetic material.