Mace said the No. 1 way these insects have been spreading is through the transportation of firewood – people are transporting the goldspotted oak borer from a place of infestation to an area ...

The shothole borer is a small beetle that can kill an entire tree by ... California sycamore, valley oak, Japanese maple and American sweet gum. Dozens of other tree and shrub species are known ...

Any wood is prey to a number of organisms. The house borer beetle likes to make an endless system of tunnels as it eats its way through wood. The process starts when an adult female lays eggs ...

In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle has spread east and west across the U.S. and Canada, killing tens of millions of ash trees, causing one of the costliest forest insect invasions to date.

That pesky pest, the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB), has made its way ... Several other trees, including English Oak, Liquid Amber, and Chinese Cottonwood on the same property ...

Durbanville residents have been urged to inspect the trees on their properties for symptoms of the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB ... including English Oak, Liquid Amber ...