It appears that bark beetles are attacking more than just the trees. Research conducted outside Steamboat Springs has found that the beetles that have decimated pine and spruce forests throughout the ...

ISLAND PARK, Idaho – Oblivious to the dry summer heat, Forest Service silviculturist John Councilman hikes through a stand of trees looking for signs of violent struggle. It doesn’t take long.

Look at a tree damaged by a bark beetle, and the weaving tunnels might look like an alien language. For a tree already stressed by drought or other factors, it can spell doom. Dense forests are often ...

CODY, Wyo. — Drive along the picturesque North Fork of the Shoshone River east of Yellowstone National Park and it’s tough to miss the changing forest along the rocky valley. The vast tracts of ...

Baby, it's cold outside. Cold enough, by chance, to kill bark beetles? Don't count on it, says Bob Cain, an entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Region. This week's frigid spell ...

Bark beetles evolved to feed on specific types of trees, leaving behind dried-out shells, as seen at Lake Granby in Granby, Colorado on May 31, 2025. (Amanda Pampuro/Courthouse News) UNCOMPAHGRE ...

Bark beetles and their associated ophiostomatoid fungi represent a complex and dynamic symbiosis with profound ecological and economic implications. These insects, notably within the genus Ips, ...

Mountain pine beetle-killed trees at Lookout Pass in 2002. Provided by Idaho Dept of Lands. Bark beetles are only about the size of a grain of rice. But for such tiny critters, they can take a big ...

The 2013 floods gave state trees the water they needed to fight off the mountain pine beetle and other forest pests, but a dry 2024 restarted some pesky threats “The Bug That’s Eating the Woods.” ...