The shothole borer is a small beetle that can kill an entire tree by boring round holes the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen into a tree’s bark. A beetle is shown in an entry hole above.

Samples taken from a Boxelder and Sweet Viburnum tree on a private property in Durbanville tested positive for the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB).

The City of Cape Town is urging residents to attend a vitally important online information session about the invasive Polyphagous shot hole borer beetle. This came after the City informed residents ...

The diminutive pest, about the size of a sesame seed, drills tiny holes into a wide variety ... species that can be killed by the shothole borer beetle, Woodward noted, but the list does not ...

A tiny beetle the size of a sesame seed that kills trees and crops is threatening to break out of Perth and unleash itself on the rest of the state and beyond. The polyphagous shot-hole borer has ...

The holes are D-shaped ... where the trees are already contending with the Mediterranean oak borer, another pernicious beetle, and sudden oak death, a disease caused by a microscopic pathogen.

Santa Clarita Valley oak trees are being invaded by the goldspotted oak borer; an insect named for ... it burrows out a 2-4 millimeter D-shaped hole, which has become the tell-tale sign that ...

That pesky pest, the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB), has made its way to Durbanville and has nested in a Boxelder and Sweet Viburnum tree on a private property. The City has ...