Spruce bark beetles use the plant defense compounds in spruce bark as a protective mechanism. After feeding, they metabolize ...

Exiling your tree to the kerb is heartbreaking, but it doesn't have to be so. In fact, there is something much more useful to ...

A SNOW bomb is set to cover Scotland in the first snowfall of 2026. In eight days, white flurries will pour over the UK with ...

Adult spruce bark beetles in their galleries in the bark of a Norway spruce tree. The beetle in the middle is infected with the fungus Beauveria bassiana.

In 1917, Huntington Taylor, manager of the Edward Rutledge Lumber Mill, started the tradition by having a tall tree erected at Fourth and Sherman. On Christmas Eve that same year, the base of the tree ...

From WOOD SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT. The Wood Soil and Water Conservation District is holding its annual tree ...

The possibility of replanting a Christmas tree hinges on a single detail: Was the tree cut, or does it have an intact root ball? "Once a real tree is harvested and cut as a Christmas tree, it no ...

As the Nursery Capitol of the World, it seems rather fitting for the Christmas tree in downtown McMinnville to be a real tree ...

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Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck ...

Your Christmas tree can now embark on its next phase of life as compost with free drop-off sites throughout King, Pierce and ...

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