The tiny pine bark beetle has had a devastating effect on the fringes of Louisiana's forests, killing thousands of trees that now pose a new risk to homeowners and infrastructure, prompting state ...

asked arborist Mike Dwyer, while pulling back the bark of a pine tree. Bark beetles attack trees by tunneling in, laying eggs and bringing in a fungus that clogs the tree's vascular system.

Laura Sims is an assistant professor for forest health at Louisiana tech and she is concerned that the drought last summer has opened the door for bark beetles to attack millions of pine trees in ...

The Missouri Department of Conservation and the University of Missouri Extension recommend this to avoid disease from bark beetles, which are very active in the warm spring and summer months.