One pest to look out for during these seasons is the western conifer seed bug. When these creepy crawlies are adults, they are brown with a yellow or orange and black pattern, and fully grown ...

Hotter and drier conditions are destroying the ability of many Western conifer forests to spring back after wildfires, a new study has found. The onslaught of destructive fire and climate change ...

In Oregon and western Washington, it is a major constituent of the Picea sitchensis, Tsuga heterophylla, and Abies amabilis Zones and is less important in the Tsuga mertensiana and Mixed-Conifer ...

And then you have the stink bugs, especially marmorated stink bug, which we have a few of, but probably one of the more common ones of that group is the western conifer seed bug,” said UMaine ...

SHERLOCK: The cause is an invasive species of insect called the western conifer seed bug, or Leptoglossus orientalis. Measuring around 2 centimeters, it sucks out the milky white nuts inside the ...