Q: I have been told I have borers in my dogwood tree. What are borers, and what can I do to deal with them? C. J., Tulsa A: Once borers are in a tree, nothing can be done to get rid of them, so the ...

Salem crews will soon begin injecting city-owned ash trees with an insecticide to protect them from the emerald ash borer. Residents with city-owned trees adjacent to their homes will soon be getting ...

It’s been at least 15 years since the emerald ash borer arrived and began to destroy ash trees in the Chicago area. Some homeowners who have been treating ash trees with insecticides to fend off the ...

The most common causes of death for newly planted trees are drowning and planting too deep, but the third most common hazard is bark borer beetles and their larvae, borer worms. These three problems ...

Public Enemy No. 1 for Michigan's ash tree - a green, wood-boring beetle from China - now has an enemy of its own. Michigan State University researchers say they've found an insecticide that's deadly ...

Nearly all shade trees and many shrubs are subject to borer attack, the tunneling of immature beetle or moth larvae through the cambium, sapwood or heartwood of the host plant. Adult insects lay eggs ...

A tree-eating insect called the emerald ash borer, or EAB, has been confirmed to be in all but two of Iowa's 99 counties, according to a press release from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land ...

I usually begin our weekly gardening chats with a little humor, because most of us are in a pretty good mood talking about our yards, vegetable gardens, houseplants and flowerbeds. It’s difficult to ...

Lakewood has confirmed its first case of emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that’s killed millions of North American ash trees, city officials said in a news release Thursday. The insect was found ...

The Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC) confirmed the presence of the Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) in Issaquena ...