Shaftsbury Tree Warden David Mance updated the Select Board on the problem at a recent meeting. The board intends to create a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Durbanville residents have been urged to inspect the trees on their properties for symptoms of the invasive Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer beetle (PSHB) and contact the City immediately should any of ...

Be they squash bugs, squash vine borers, cucumber beetles, aphids, Japanese beetles or other garden foes, nearly all gardeners have tales of how their once-pristine crops came to be ravaged by an ...

The emerald ash borer lifecycle begins with females laying up to 100 eggs in a single tree. Within one to three years, the beetle larvae have fed on the wood beneath the bark enough to kill the tree.

quickly mature and seek more borers to parasitize. The process has been found to be effective in other countries suffering from the beetle. At the same time, there has been no recorded instance of ...

Behind their bark were deadly invaders – cedar borers, a beetle species that attacks cedar trees. Biting away at more than just bark – the burrowing beetles had been eating away at the city's ...

The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), scientifically known as Agrilus planipennis, is an invasive beetle species native to northeastern Asia. It was first detected in North America near Detroit, Michigan, in ...