The beetles killing spruce trees in epidemic proportions across Colorado attacked forests at a faster pace in 2014. Meanwhile, the mountain pine beetle epidemic slowed dramatically, likely because the ...

We should all be very concerned about the current drought and a little bug the size of a grain of rice which is bringing projections of potential near-100% fatality in some areas in Front Range ...

The Colorado Department of Agriculture is funding additional efforts to eradicate a resurgence of ravenous Japanese beetles in Mesa County. The pest was discovered in Grand Junction two years ago. A ...

DENVER – Mountain pine beetles have left vast tracts of dead, dry trees in the West, raising fears that they're more vulnerable to wildfire outbreaks, but a new study found no evidence that ...

DENVER – The mountain pine beetle epidemic that ravaged Colorado’s lodgepole pines for two decades is over because most of the vulnerable trees are dead, but a second bug that attacks spruce trees is ...

DENVER — The mountain pine beetle epidemic that ravaged Colorado’s lodgepole pines for two decades is over because most of the vulnerable trees are dead, but a second bug that attacks spruce trees is ...

A Colorado city is fighting to save tens of thousands of its trees from a “devastating” death. But it’s not deforestation or wildfires they are up against this time – it’s a tiny half-inch-long bug.

Bark beetles are attacking trees all over Colorado, but their effects are widely up for debate. State officials and scientists have recently expressed differing opinions on the beetles and the impact ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – This story will ring a bell for Eagle County residents: Beetles smaller than a grain of rice continue to choke off and kill thousands of whitebark pine trees and other species ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MONTROSE — The rolling farmland, adobe hills and arroyos of Colorado’s Uncompahgre Valley are largely devoid of trees and might seem like an unusual site for ...

The beetles killing spruce trees in epidemic proportions across Colorado attacked forests at a faster pace in 2014. Meanwhile, the mountain pine beetle epidemic slowed dramatically, likely because the ...