While forests can normally handle the beetles in low populations, an increase in dead trees can also lead to dangerous wildfire conditions.

Georgia forestry officials released a new beetle report showing where destructive pine pest activity is highest this year.

FLAGSTAFF — Pine-needle-eating bugs are pestering a thousand acres of trees near Kendrick Peak, northwest of Flagstaff. In an area burned by the 15,000-acre Pumpkin Fire in 2000 and in controlled ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado’s Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over the next five years as pine ...

Alias: White pine weevil. The adults are brown beetles white spots on their back. They have a long elephant trunklike nose and antennae protruding halfway down this nose. The larvae are hatched in ...