It’s been just over one year since Lavaloha farmer Daeus Bencomo found telltale signs of Queensland longhorn beetles on his ...

WORCESTER, Mass. -- A wood-devouring beetle has gained a foothold in New England, and authorities plan to cut down large numbers of infested trees and grind them up to stop the pest from spreading to ...

Here's what you should know. The emerald ash borer is an invasive beetle native to Asia that bores into wood and kills ash ...

Big Island farmers want the state to tackle the Queensland longhorn beetle before it spreads to the rest of the state and ...

April 7 (UPI) --A highly invasive wood-boring beetle was intercepted last month by U.S. border agents before it could destroy forests and ecosystems, Customs and Border Protection announced Monday.

Even for insects, wood is a tough food source as it contains hard substances such as cellulose. To help make wood more palatable, some wood-feeding insects are assisted by symbiotic microorganisms ...

My incoming email box this last month was full of questions about the powderpost beetle and its holes in kiln dried wood, and bamboo too. So let’s put everything we know about this pest in one place.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LITTLETON, Colo. (KDVR) — A destructive wood ...

Deep beneath the waves, tiny clams with shells usually about as big as a pea bore into pieces of sunken wood. The wood is food for them, as well as a home. These rare, scattered, sunken pieces of wood ...

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