Tiny pests can sneak into any home through hidden cracks and openings. Weevils, a common beetle variety, are unwelcome visitors sometimes found in dry pantry goods such as flour, grain, cornmeal, or ...

ENCINITASENCINITAS — Encinitas will treat its iconic heritage palm tree at Moonlight Beach regularly with pesticides to prevent it from being killed by South American palm weevil infestations. But it ...

Few things can strike fear into the heart of a banana farmer more than finding an infestation of the banana weevil. Females of this coffee bean–sized insect lay their eggs between the plant’s leaves ...

In 1997, a massive pine beetle infestation devastated the Black Hills, destroying pines across the region. Nearly three ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.) joined Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) and several of her Senate colleagues in reintroducing the Emergency Pine Beetle Response Act of 2025. The ...

Learn more about the chemical arms race between a fungus, a tree, and a beetle.