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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Forest Service's biggest headline in its annual report on forest health this year is mountain pine beetle infestations ...

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Invasive species are imported as livestock, pets and attractions in zoos. Some hitch rides on plants, on the bottom of a boot, in the ballast of ships. Then they wreak havoc. Here's how we're tackling ...

Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down.

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war. The mountain pine beetles, native insects to the Centennial State, have recently exploded in numbers in ...

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Beetles of the species Rhopalotria furfuracea on a male cone of the cycad Zamia furfuracea, whose cones produce heat during pollination. Credit: Michael Calonje. We tend to think of plants as passive, ...