Orange cankers and cracked bark on chestnut trees may signal a destructive fungal disease that spreads more easily than many ...

Bark beetles are dark flying insects about the size of a grain of rice that leave tiny holes in the bark and branches of trees. Their very small grubs feed voraciously on the inner bark of trees that ...

The seasons are changing from fall to winter, and one of the major changes to the environment is that the deciduous trees have lost their leaves. Evergreen trees may still have green needles, but all ...

The cracked, hard bark of woody plants carries more than just lichen, insects, and years of dust. The seemingly barren layer teems with trillions of microbes, including bacteria, algae, and fungi. 1 ...