“There is a risk that fresh trees and garland will bring unwanted gifts— insects— when moved from nature to inside,” says University of Missouri Extension urban entomologist Emily Althoff. “While many ...
The overall purpose behind thinning the forest is to limit wildfire intensity and prevent wildfires from spreading within the upper canopy parts of Mount Ascension forest, city documents report.
In the years that followed, and particularly after the hot summer of 2003, bark beetle outbreaks caused almost two-thirds as much damaged wood as the storm itself. From their long-term ...
Newborn humpback whales can measure more than 15 feet from nose to tail fluke and weigh as much as full-grown giraffes. But these hefty calves still need to pack on the pounds quickly to reach ...
allowing pine beetles to feed and reproduce in the tree bark. A successful beetle-fungus attack ultimately causes tree death. Now, researchers from UBC and the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences ...