A tiny beetle responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of oak trees in Southern California has reached Ventura County, ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An invasive insect has caused noticeable damage to Oregon’s white oak trees in 2022, the Oregon Department of Forestry said. The oak lace bug, scientific name Corythucha ...
The Mediterranean oak borer, a miniscule beetle no bigger than a sesame seed, has been discovered in trees around the Portland area. The invasive pest native to Europe, the Middle East and North ...
Don't worry if you live in the Northeast — this pest usually sticks to other regions. Here's where it's found and why your ...
It’s less than a half-inch long but it can fell a giant oak tree in no time. The goldspotted oak borer, GSOB or Agrilus auroguttatus, is a 0.4-inch bullet-shaped beetle with six golden spots on its ...
‘I have some weird, seemingly hollow, green, round balls falling from my oak tree. What in the world are these things?” — S.Y. You are describing an interesting growth that can occur on a variety of ...
Invasive goldspotted oak borers have been newly detected in Ventura County. UC ANR is calling on community scientists to ...
Oak wilt, a lethal tree disease in which species such as Mizunara and Kashiwa oaks are attacked by insects and eventually d ...
Besides being the National Tree of America, oaks support insects, birds and all forms of wildlife. Of all native tree species, oaks support hundreds of butterfly and moth species, 534 to be exact, as ...