The Southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis), like the Ips beetle, attacks stressed and dying pine trees as well. However, unlike the Ips beetle, it has also been known to attack healthy trees, ...

Without its bark, this Scots pine’s life cycle has slowed, allowing it to stand tall in death for hundreds of years ...

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Q: When is a dead pine tree not really dead? A: When it’s mitey. To find the root of this seemingly nonsensical riddle, we need to go back a couple of summers, to the time my partner and I first moved ...