An invasive Mexican beetle, which was first discovered in forestry in Cratloe in south Clare in late 2023, has successfully ...

Like mountain pine beetles, fire is native to western forests ... the fungi slip out of the suitcases and grow alongside the larvae, providing them with nitrogen-rich food.

Pine sawyer beetles infect the trees with these worms ... causing defoliation and weakening the tree's health. Sawfly larvae tend to congregate in groups, stripping trees of needles quickly.

"So many people worked to preserve the pine barrens," said one fire manager, "and along comes an insect the size of a grain of rice to wipe it all out." ...

Adult beetles bore through bark and grow larvae in galleries they create in the trunk. “Southern pine beetle is usually not that much of an issue, but when we get to epidemic levels, they will ...

once the larvae are mature, they bore exit holes for the adult beetles. The house borer beetle finds spruce, pine, and larch woods particularly tasty.

An invasive Mexican beetle, which was first discovered in forestry in Cratloe in late 2023, has successfully bred in Ireland ...

Pine rocklands are characterized by limestone outcrops ... In addition, 2010 survey of larvae at the beetle?s Metrozoo site produced 63 larval burrows. A 2011 repeat survey produced only five larvae.