The extremely invasive wood-boring beetle kills nearly all species of ash trees in Maine. The Maine Department of Agriculture Conservation and Forestry says it is now expanding the current EAB ...

April 7 (UPI) --A highly invasive wood-boring beetle was intercepted last month by U.S. border agents before it could destroy forests and ecosystems, Customs and Border Protection announced Monday.

“It’s an invasive wood-boring species and essentially it’s really devastating and has the potential to kill upwards of 99 percent of the Ash trees it infests.” This time of year the bug is ...

Greg Ranallo, an arborist and the owner of Teachers Tree Service, walked along the sidewalk in front of the Shaw’s on Route 7 ...

But the woodpecker prefers its mature and old-growth trees to be snags — because it loves to eat the wood-boring beetles that flock to large dead and moribund trees, responding to insect outbreaks ...

So far, the emerald ash borer has not infected the hundreds of ash trees in Acadia National Park, according to Jesse Wheeler, ...