Ips pini, or the Engraver Beetles are insects that develop in pines and spruces. Ips are everywhere in the United States. They are attracted to pines and spruces under stress from drought, root injury ...

Spruce trees fear these little beetles. Greeley lost 138 pine trees last year, almost double the previous record of 72 set in 1999, and the ips beetle was the culprit. The ips is nasty little, reddish ...

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

Members of the Georgia Forestry Commission are calling this year's Ips beetle outbreak the worst they've seen. Madison Cavalchire went to a tree farm in Macon to find out how the tiny bug is having a ...

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LITTLE ROCK — State forestry officials say five Arkansas counties may be at risk of an outbreak of beetle that causes damage to pine trees. The Arkansas Forestry Commission says aerial surveys ...

CHEYENNE – First came the mountain pine beetle, then the emerald ash borer. And now, officials are warning of another insect threat to Cheyenne’s trees. The Cheyenne Urban Forestry Division, along ...

The Alabama Forestry Commission is working with Wiregrass timber owners to try to save the timber industry from the outbreak of Ips Bark Beetles. “Ips Bark Beetles are hitting our pines very hard,” ...

A pair of 112-year-old spruce trees cut down near Old Mill Park were infested with ips beetles, arborists confirmed Thursday. The 90-foot-tall trees at 239 Pratt St. had been dying from the top down, ...

Alias: Ips beetle, engraver beetle, or simple “bark beetle.” Ips beetles are small, usually about a quarter of an inch long. They can vary in color from dark brown to black. Their back end tends to ...

HOT SPRINGS -- A localized infestation of Ips engraver beetles in the Ouachita National Forest is forcing the U.S. Forest Service to cull a large number of trees in Montgomery County. The trees, which ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. – Joint Base Lewis-McChord is full of beautiful forests. Often, the forests are filled with Douglas fir trees, but ponderosa pine is also present. Ponderosa pine is ...