Bark beetles can destroy spruce forests by converting the trees' defences into even more toxic substances, scientists ...

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

Spruce bark beetles hijack their host tree’s chemical defenses, transforming them into potent weapons against fungal threats.

Then there is the fungus, Beauveria bassiana. This fungus is neither the tree’s nor the beetle’s friend; as a pathogenic ...

Bark beetles convert spruce tree defenses into more potent antimicrobials to protect themselves, but a fungus can neutralize ...

Native fungi from forests killed emerald ash borers in lab tests, offering a potential new biological tool to slow the ...

Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado's Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over ...