Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees produce antibodies against harmful fungi. But bark beetles absorb these antibodies and use them to their own advantage. And ...

Florida’s fruit trees face a relentless enemy that doesn’t care how much you watered, pruned, or fertilized. A tiny invasive ...

Bark beetles may use receptors in their antennae to detect and feast on fungus-infected trees. The Eurasian spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) – found in Europe, Asia and some parts of Africa – ...

GRAND JUNCTION (AP) – A silent killer steadily encroaching on the most beloved of Western Slope fruit has moved into the crosshairs of peach growers and researchers. It’s a fungus so widespread that ...

All over Gem County, the Fire Blight fungus is taking over. What starts as a bacterial ooze, quickly turns to the tree’s bark becoming dark and eventually causing tree limbs to break off. Fire blight, ...

Sugar maples ( Acer saccharum) are large, hardy, deciduous trees renowned for their vibrant yellow, orange, and red fall colors and for their syrup production. Although they are susceptible to some ...

Bark beetles can destroy spruce forests by converting the trees' defences into even more toxic substances, scientists recently discovered. But a special fungus can help the trees circumvent this ...