In the Adirondack Park, scientists released parasitic wasps in a nationwide experiment using biological controls against ...

Until now, owners of homes and businesses in south-central Minnesota could mostly choose to worry later about emerald ash ...

After 15 years of relentless work to combat the spread of the Emerald Ash Borer beetles, the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have completed the removal of the last ash trees from public spaces ...

The emerald ash borer (EAB) is a deceptively beautiful insect. As the first part of the name implies, the one-centimeter long beetles are an iridescent, metallic green. They have large ...

A researcher in Ohio was surrounded by hundreds of dead ash trees wiped out by a beetle called the emerald ash borer. But ...

Ash trees are dying by the thousands in south-central Minnesota. Chainsaws are roaring as government workers struggle to keep ...

Removals add hundreds of thousands as communities and forest owners seek to reduce losses, limit the numbers of beetles and limit the numbers of potential hazard trees. As of October 2008, the emerald ...

Emerald ash borer beetles, an invasive species that kills ash trees by gnawing away at the tissue beneath the bark, have toppled more than four trees onto her property over the past decade.

The emerald ash borer is an exotic beetle that feeds off nutrients in ash trees and essentially starves the trees to death, said Michael Schommer, MDA communications director. âÄúIt is 100 percent ...

Specifically, a chemical called mectinite is used to kill boring insects. First, holes are drilled around the base of the tree, then tubes (which are connected to a pressurized container of mectinite) ...

The North Valley Complex in Wilsonville is home to the state’s entomology labs, where insects are identified and studied.