Q: I understand that any home can be susceptible to termites, but what about wood-boring beetles? We have a crawl space under our house. Anything we should look for? A: There are about a half dozen ...

Q. The stems of my pussy willow trees have a borer in them. What would I spray them with and when? Would it be better if I cut them to the ground and started over? I have about a dozen trees. Jan ...

More than 90 percent of the ash trees Naperville treated with chemicals to fight off the emerald ash borer show no signs of infestation three years later, city officials said. As a result, the program ...

Q: My ash tree has been undergoing emerald ash borer treatment for several years. Does the chemical injection affect the woodpeckers and nuthatches? I hope I’m not inadvertently poisoning them.

The emerald ash borer (Agrilus plantipenis), a recent insect immigrant to North America carried in with the wooden packing material of imported goods, is projected to cause over a billion dollars in ...

Sometimes being a good steward of the earth requires humans to make tough choices and incur losses or experience inconvenience. The city of Boulder has lots of green ash trees and wood from these ...

KEARNEY — Saving an ash tree from emerald ash borer beetles is a costly proposition, but an expert on the little green bugs that are creeping across Nebraska said some ash trees might be worth ...

After the very early morning rain we had on Jan. 18 and nighttime air temperatures near 45 degrees, I saw wet, brown ooze from the exposed upper branches of a sunburned peach tree the next day. The ...

DULUTH — Agriculture officials in Minnesota, Wisconsin and North Dakota said Wednesday that Taylors Wood Products firewood sold at Menards, and possibly some other stores, might contain emerald ash ...