After seeing my article last week on the efficacy of systemic insecticides for bark beetles and borers in pines, a reader, Ken, wondered whether a product he was using against bronze birch borers was ...

I got an email from a reader of our column who asked why their iris was rotting fast at the root. This question caused me to think about a friend of mine who passed away a few years ago. Unfortunately ...

NORTH ADAMS — “It’s awful, just terrible,” said Thomas Moore, owner of a Williamstown tree service, The Tree Guy. “We’re losing trees like crazy. It’s like a perfect storm.” That’s word from the front ...

How do you find an insect the size of your fingertip in a densely packed forest? For Jian Duan, the answer is simple: follow the dead ash trees. On a rainy day in eastern Connecticut, Duan, a federal ...

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 ...

Reviewed by Amanda Rose NewtonFact checked by Jessica Wrubel Raspberries are fairly carefree plants to grow in your garden. For most of us, the main challenges of growing these brambles are keeping ...

CARBONDALE — Carl Meinecke sidles up to an ash tree and wraps a tape measure around the trunk, gathering both circumference and diameter in one move. “Diameter is 17.9 inches,” Carbondale’s town ...

New to North America in 2002 and found in Boulder in 2013, emerald ash borer is a nonnative insect that established itself and began infesting and killing ash trees in the county. With no natural ...