I usually begin our weekly gardening chats with a little humor, because most of us are in a pretty good mood talking about our yards, vegetable gardens, houseplants and flowerbeds. It’s difficult to ...

Salem crews will soon begin injecting city-owned ash trees with an insecticide to protect them from the emerald ash borer. Residents with city-owned trees adjacent to their homes will soon be getting ...

The most common causes of death for newly planted trees are drowning and planting too deep, but the third most common hazard is bark borer beetles and their larvae, borer worms. These three problems ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Trees stressed by prolonged drought are more subject to attack by boring insects. This article provides tips and a video link on how to manage pines for borers. Record ...

Nearly all shade trees and many shrubs are subject to borer attack, the tunneling of immature beetle or moth larvae through the cambium, sapwood or heartwood of the host plant. Adult insects lay eggs ...

Public Enemy No. 1 for Michigan's ash tree - a green, wood-boring beetle from China - now has an enemy of its own. Michigan State University researchers say they've found an insecticide that's deadly ...

Grass and vegetation against the trunk of a stone fruit tree provides a humid and secluded place for female borer moths to lay their eggs. Grass against a trunk also increases the likelihood of string ...

All of Iowa's 99 counties confirmed having the ash tree-killing insect, emerald ash borer, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources reported Thursday. As one of the most commonly planted street trees ...

James E. Zablotny/USDA APHIS This week, crews removed dozens of infested ash trees in Forest Grove as part of a state plan to slow the spread of the destructive pest. This month, state agencies ...

Littleton has detected the Emerald Ash Borer in at least one tree in town. The beetle is a non-native pest that has the potential to dramatically change the landscape of Colorado's Front Range. "One ...