The elm leaf beetle, Xanthogaleruca luteola (or Pyrrhalta luteola) is a native of southern Europe, but it found its way to North America in the late 1800s.Adults are small, 6 or 8 mm (0.25 inches) ...

This article was published 03/09/2020 (1521 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. City crews were out in South Osborne this past week, spraying trees for a beetle that spreads ...

Damage from the elm leaf beetle is getting the attention of homeowners, but the insect is not to be confused with the elm bark beetle, the carrier of the dreaded Dutch elm disease, says Fredric ...

When Windsor forester Ken Kawamura received an e-mail about the banded elm bark beetle making an appearance along the Front Range, he put on his Inspector Gadget coat and went looking for evidence of ...

Now, elm lined boulevards are just a dream for most places, or should I say a nightmare. Sometime around 1928 a very tiny beetle called the European elm bark beetle arrived in North America.

Firewood can provide overwintering and breeding habitat for the elm bark beetle that spreads the disease. Eliminating elm wood in the spring destroys the overwintering beetles before they can emerge.

Female adult beetles are up to a half-inch long. They can lay more than 90 eggs in a tree’s bark. What happens next sounds like something from the "Alien" science-fiction movies.

Removal of the damaged parts reduces breeding sites for the elm bark beetle and removes the fungus from the vicinity. Branches with “flagging” symptoms should be removed, making a cut well behind (5-8 ...

The Asian longhorned beetle has moved into an elm tree in a residential yard near Addison, but officials said they are delighted that hunts for the tree-killing pest have otherwise turned up fruitl… ...

Mortality approached 100% wherever a beetle breached an elm’s bark, and the tree’s ubiquity accelerated its demise. The elm’s elegant vase-shaped profile made it a perfect street tree.