Right next to a tree stripped of its needles will be several 6-, 10- and maybe even 15-foot young trees, probably absorbing the nutrients from the deceased neighbor, but certainly thriving. And ...

One more telltale sign of the swamp spruce is a dense cover of small hairs on the bark of young branch tips. In some instances, black spruce will hybridize with other spruces, making positive ...

Breakthrough in the fight against spruce bark beetles Date: February 16, 2021 Source: Lund University Summary: For the first time, a research team has mapped out exactly what happens when spruce ...

Hot, dry summers are fanning an unprecedented outbreak of bark beetles that are destroying vast swathes of central Europe's spruce forests which define the region's landscape. Skip to main content ...

The UK’s very first outbreak of the eight-toothed spruce bark beetle has been detected along with a warning the brightly-coloured creepy crawlies love nothing more than to munch on spruce, pine ...