Texas A&M Forest Service is offering landowners financial and technical assistance through the Southern Pine Beetle Prevention Program.

Pitch tubes, or nodes of tree sap, which indicate the presence of the southern pine beetle, are visible on a pitch pine tree at the Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge in Shirley in 2014. The beetles, ...

New York State Parks officials will begin removing dead trees from Napeague State Park in East Hampton after they were ravaged by infestations by the southern pine beetle. Officials said the insects ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Southern pine beetles are popping up more and more throughout Alabama and trees are being impacted. According to the Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC), nearly five thousand ...

Dead trees also provide shelter for birds, such as six types of woodpeckers, owls, chickadees, bluebirds, wrens, nuthatches ...

The mystery surrounding a disease that is killing Southern pine trees could possibly be solved by Auburn University detector dogs. Lori Eckhardt, associate research professor in Auburn's School of ...

WATCH OUT FOR WORKERS. >> THE CITY OF MADISON COULD END UP SPENDING MORE THAN $1 MILLION TO DEAL WITH THE DAMAGE DONE BY SOUTHERN PINE BEETLES. THE CITY HAS BEEN REMOVING TREES ALONG MADISON PARKWAY ...

A western pine beetle rests on a sap mound on a pine tree. - Charles Wollertz/Getty Images A thriving pine tree is a thing of beauty, but what if your pine tree doesn't seem so healthy? If you notice ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A bug smaller than your fingernail is attacking some of the tallest trees in the metro area. Arborists say it’s a bad year for southern pine beetles. "(They) could be small, could ...

January's record high average temperature throughout Maine foreshadows a threat from a new pest that could attack the iconic trees spanning Maine's southern coast to the mountaintops of Acadia ...