Ambrosia beetles have a nose for alcohol. It's what attracts them to downed Douglas firs, which give off ethanol — ethyl alcohol ...

Beetles feeding on rotting wood and fungi pose no threat to other trees. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 84°F. Tuesday, June 10th 2025 ...

In this case the nearest rotting tree stumps are about fifty yards away. A female beetle sometime in the past sensed that it was close enough for her progeny and went ahead and laid her eggs.

(The Center Square) — The Louisiana Legislature's Emergency Beetle Subcommittee met on Oct. 24 to address the growing crisis of dying and rotting trees across Louisiana, many of which are ...

Found this big boy in the lawn, already dead. Don’t know what to make of him. He’s so big, but does that equate to bad? Hercules beetles are the largest insects on the East Coast and, like ...

More than 834 million trees destroyed by Beetle-kill are rotting in Colorado forests. Over 22% of standing trees in Colorado forests are dead. Since the mid-1990s, mountain pine beetle has affected ...

The Forest Service charges beetle-kill harvesters $20 to remove two cords of wood here in Colorado. Rotting trees increase greenhouse gases in forest ecosystems by 25%.

The insects will climb out of the ground near the roots of trees, make a whole lot of noise to attract a mate, lay eggs and then die, not to emerge again for another 13 years.

Often these insects are afflicting a tree that is already stressed from other factors. It may be diseased and dying, or dead and rotting. In effect, the damage has already been done.