That pesky pest, the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB), has made its way to Durbanville and has nested in a ...

Samples taken from a Boxelder and Sweet Viburnum tree on a private property in Durbanville tested positive for the invasive ...

The invasive emerald ash borer, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was first found in the United States in southeast Michigan in 2002. In the decades since, the wood-boring beetle ...

I recently had a call from a homeowner who discovered insects in firewood they use for home heating. She was concerned the insects might affect her home and wood furnishings. The good news ...

I have been absolutely devastated to learn about the extent of the coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) infestation across our islands. On Kauaʻi, they are now present in Wailua and along our ...

Throughout Gears of War games set during the Locust War, players will repeatedly encounter a set of Locust troops. Towards the bottom of the Locust ranks are the ape-like Wretches and explosive ...

Economics professor Alberto Garcia looked at changes in school attendance and standardized test scores at schools in the Chicago metropolitan region over the decade after a non-native beetle called ...

The shothole borer is a small beetle that can kill an entire tree by boring round holes the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen into a tree’s bark. A beetle is shown in an entry hole above. Photo by ...

Emerald ash borer are beetles native to East Asia, and have destroyed millions of ash trees used in urban spaces and forests since first appearing in eastern Canada and the eastern United States ...

Ecologists at Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Centre for Invasion Biology (CIB) have developed an innovative monitoring protocol to map priority areas for detecting new and expanding polyphagous shot ...

Anyone from KwaZulu Natal will be familiar with wood-borer beetles. They are common in coastal regions especially and throughout KZN where ever the climate is ideal for their life cycle.

The emerald ash borer is a small green beetle native to northeast Asia, whose larvae burrow under the bark of ash trees. The ash borers were first identified in the U.S. in 2002, Osthus said.