A new tiny but devastating invasive Asian beetle was identified this week in Santa Cruz County. The California Department of ...

and utterly beautiful at the same time. Those aren't some strange arrangement of antennae on a beetle but the fruiting bodies of a "zombie fungus" that has taken control of the insect. Its ...

Oak trees in Michigan are being killed by oak wilt, a fungal infection that's spread by a beetle in the spring and summer.

is a member of the feather-wing beetle family (Ptiliidae) and feeds predominantly on the spores of the bracket fungus ...

not directly but it has a fungus that's seen beyond the fungus attacks the wood and then the beetle attacks the fungus, and it can attack and kill hundreds of species of trees." Concerns have also ...

The wilt condition is caused by a fungus transmitted by ambrosia beetles measuring 4 to 5 millimeters long. Broad-leaved trees bearing acorns are targeted. The disease spread rapidly likely ...

The beetle has recently become re-established in some parts of England. Honey fungus was the top concern in terms of diseases, while other types of fungi took advantage of the warm wet weather to ...

The fungus attacks the wood and then the beetle attacks the fungus, and it can attack and kill hundreds of species of trees." Concerns have also been raised within the community. "Urban heatload ...

It's spread by very tiny sap-feeding beetles that carry spores to wounds on healthy oak trees,” Michigan DNR Forest Health Pathologist Simeon Wright said. “The fungus grows inside the tree and ...