Q: I understand that any home can be susceptible to termites, but what about wood-boring beetles? We have a crawl space under our house. Anything we should look for? A: There are about a half dozen ...

As I walked past a small, damaged cottonwood tree, I noticed an iridescent movement. It was a black beetle with numerous glimmering dots, even on its large eyes. It had an oval body, a blunt head and ...

Q: We have a wood floor in our home that repeatedly has termite mud holes and piles of sawdust showing up. The contractor has replaced some of the wood, but the problem continues. Is there any ...

An infestation of wood-boring beetles has forced a small town northeast of Regina to shut down its hockey rink, a community asset that also hosts events from surrounding towns, during its busiest ...

* Description: This beetle belongs to a group called the Buprestids. They are bullet-shaped and are often metallic-colored, though this species has brown and black stripes running the length of the ...

Question: Over the past several years, I have started planting edible trees and shrubs in my landscape including pears, peaches, figs and even a pomegranate. Most are doing well, but after the leaves ...

There are many insects that kill conifers. Dead pine trees can be seen all over the country, from Rocky Mountain National Park, shown here, to forests in North Carolina and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, ...

Absence can speak volumes. The lack of sediment in a flat piece of ground—a track—can testify to the footstep of a dinosaur that once walked on it. The lack of minerals in a solid shell—a hole—can ...