AUSTIN (KXAN) — An invasive wood-boring beetle is quickly spreading in Texas, thanks to human interactions. Emerald ash borers are an invasive species that bores into ash trees—whether it’s ...

Wildfires consume all and leave little more than ashes in their wake—but that’s hardly enough to stop these animals from ...

Any wood is prey to a number of organisms. The house borer beetle likes to make an endless system of tunnels as it eats its way through wood. The process starts when an adult female lays eggs ...

This variability could inform the development of hardier ash trees, resistant to both the invasive beetles and rising ...

In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle has spread east and west across the U.S. and Canada, killing tens of millions of ash trees, causing one of the costliest forest insect invasions to date.

It has been bitterly cold lately. With cold winters, our heating bills go up. One thing many people do to save money on home ...

Cerambycid beetles, commonly known as longhorned beetles, are a diverse group of wood-boring insects that play significant roles in forest ecosystems. Their behavior, particularly in relation to ...

If you're thinking of thrifting or buying wood furniture from an estate sale, you might want to thoroughly inspect it first.

That pesky pest, the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB), has made its way ... English Oaks, Beef Wood, Weeping Willow, Cape Chestnut, Black Locust, Paperbark, and Maples.

The invasive emerald ash borer, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was first found in the United States in southeast Michigan in 2002. In the decades ...