Defoliators are insects that eat tree needles or leaves, making them bare of foliage. Defoliated trees can return to normal in spring, but severely defoliated trees might become subject to a bark ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WBMA) — The Alabama Forestry Commission (AFC) is alerting forest landowners to a new threat to loblolly pine trees: brown spot needle blight. This fungal disease, which causes ...

Statewide “defoliation” or the visible loss of needles and leaves rose a whooping 39%. “A lot of what goes on with aerial surveying is both science as well as art,” said Victor Lucero, Forest Health ...

While fire is a natural disturbance in fire-dependent forests, dead standing trees can act as a ladder for a ground fire to climb to the forest canopy, quickly making a fire worse. Dead balsam fir ...

Native insects proved to be the primary cause of tree damage. These include the caterpillars of the Douglas-fir tussock moth, which defoliated 18,000 acres within mixed conifer forests, a significant ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) — Twice as many trees died in New Mexico’s forests from 2023 to 2024, according to the Forest Health Conditions report released on Monday. The New Mexico Forestry ...

The state’s Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force has outlined steps forest owners can take in at-risk areas to minimize damage, including insecticide spraying and removal of balsam fir trees, the budworms’ ...

The window during which butterflies leave their overwintering roosts in Mexico's pine and fir trees is short and at the mercy of the weather. This year, the temperature was uncooperative for days ...

However, an official said that after an inquiry into the matter, a complaint was sent to the police to register an FIR. Jasinder Sekhon, an activist based in Sangrur, said, “We got to know that more ...

also derived from yew tree needles. The taxanes exert their cytotoxic effect by binding tubulin, stabilizing the microtubule and inhibiting its disassembly, ultimately leading to cell death by ...