Millions of acres of beetle-killed trees in the Rocky Mountains could possibly be developed into an innovative industry that uses existing technology to convert biomass into high-grade gasoline, ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management identified the tile-horned prionus beetle as a growing ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BOULDER — The news on pine beetle outbreaks is not necessarily all bad, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Colorado. Professor ...

A recent survey conducted in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has revealed eight European beetle species not previously documented in ...

CHEYENNE — Whitebark pine trees in the Yellowstone area are dying at a rate approaching the acreage of all trees that burned in the region’s vast 1988 wildfires, a researcher says. The Natural ...

MANGILAO, Guam — One of this island’s most notorious invasive species apparently is helping another, researchers say. A recent study shows that a lack of birds and rats — because of the brown tree ...

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — New research shows an invasive beetle that has destroyed hardwood forests thrives in red maple trees, according to federal scientists. The findings by the U.S. Forest Service in ...

Planet Earth has been holding out on us. Apparently, there's a beetle that escapes certain death in the belly of a toad by shooting a toxic, 212-degree chemical mix from its butt, causing the toad to ...

Over the past decade or so, massive tree-eating armies of mountain pine beetles have chewed through tens of millions of acres of pine forests throughout the West. The trees killed by the bugs then ...