A devastating tree disease known as laurel wilt is infecting both Greene and Beaufort counties. This disease is caused by the ...

Interestingly, this widespread fungus can live on/in healthy ... Nothing can salvage a tree infected with hypoxylon in its trunk, though nearby trees are not necessarily at high risk if they ...

Eventually, the entire tree succumbs. The fungus spreads by spores, and it’s those spores that can enter a person’s lungs and cause an allergic reaction called Maple Bark Disease. In parts of ...

Infected male alpine tree frogs set about fathering far more offspring, helping avoid extinction in the wild – for now.

Scientists recently isolated a fungus that kills the tree ... now experimenting with using the fungi to kill tree of heaven, by hacking the trunk and directly injecting the pathogen into the ...

The fungus is widespread and continues to survive ... Bacterial wetwood, also known as slime flux, is a major bole or trunk rot. The tree, when infected, tries its best to compartmentalize the ...

JERICHO, Vt. (WCAX) - A recently discovered disease is spreading deeper into Vermont’s forests. Beech trees are a common and ...

That may be a natural question to ask when looking at the striking difference in the bark pattern on this white oak. In fact, it is an infection, but not a harmful one to the survival of the tree.

Along the walk, the group stopped at a large bifurcated beech tree with a large tinder hoof fungus about four feet up the trunk. She said the interaction of a scale insect and a fungus causes ...