If you take a close look at some of the more established trees in your landscape, you may notice something you cannot seem to describe – it may look to you like a kind of fungus on your tree trunk. Is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees produce antibodies against harmful fungi. But bark beetles absorb these antibodies and use them to their own advantage. And ...

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena has investigated how these plant defenses ...

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena investigated how these plant defenses ...

Bark beetles may use receptors in their antennae to detect and feast on fungus-infected trees. The Eurasian spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) – found in Europe, Asia and some parts of Africa – ...

Q: Can you tell what caused a big patch of bark to fall off the bottom of my oak tree? No marks or tunnels at all; bark looks like it just fell off suddenly. Dan Hunt, email A: My bet would be ...

Arborists say many tree problems go unnoticed until a storm hits. Here are the warning signs experts say homeowners should ...

Q: I have a pine tree on the edge of my lawn that has clusters of mushrooms coming up around the base of the trunk. My friend told me these mushrooms are a sign that the tree has rotting roots and the ...

An interesting amber-colored mushroom is showing up in many gardens. It’s actually kind of pretty, but it’s scaring some folks, especially when tree care companies and arborists report that it is ...

Bark beetles can destroy spruce forests by converting the trees' defences into even more toxic substances, scientists recently discovered. But a special fungus can help the trees circumvent this ...