Common tree pests fall into three main categories: defoliators such as tent caterpillars that eat leaves, borers like emerald ash borer that attack the wood of the tree, and sap suckers like scale ...

Gardening doesn’t have to feel like a battle against every creepy crawly that crosses your backyard. Imagine walking into a ...

Your yard is your pride and joy. A sanctuary where you can get away from the hecticness of modern life and relax and reconnect with nature. So, it can be incredibly upsetting to find pests harming ...

Sometimes we tend to pay more attention to our flowers after winter than we do to our trees and shrubs. But there are lots of enemies lurking around both trees and shrubs. You can check out some of ...

What would you say is the greatest threat to the survival of our trees? Deforestation? Climate change? How about disease? Many of us don't really think about trees getting sick or infected but pests ...

Pests are ravaging keystone species like ash, elm, and beech. But researchers are breeding the survivors into more resilient populations. Port Orford cedar trees in Redwood National Park that were ...

Two insects tend to be the most prevalent pests in our area’s fruit trees: the codling moth (apples) and the western cherry fruit fly (cherries). Both create “wormy” fruit, and both, once the “worm” ...

Most Iowans are familiar with the emerald ash borer and the insect’s threat to our foliage, but we’re also being asked to be on guard for another insect that’s equally as lethal to a much wider ...

An invasive pest that kills oak trees continues to spread through the Willamette Valley between Portland and Salem. Oregon officials completed a two-year study this summer that found the Mediterranean ...