Borers are dangerous pests drawn to flowering perennials, such as sunflowers. The sunflower blooms during mid to late summer, helping draw these insects to late-blooming fruit trees, like pears ...

stems and branches from winter-flowering shrubs (azaleas, camellias, rhododendrons). Clean up fallen leaves and blossoms from the area below and around your plants. Do not compost diseased material.

Cape Town’s once-majestic urban forests are under attack from a tiny yet deadly invader – the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB). Barker explains that the threat lies in the fusarium fungus ...

We definitely have peach tree borers in our nectarine tree. The trunk is pretty much encircled by the sap oozing just above ...

The City of Canning has pioneered a new technique for tackling the polyphagous shot-hole borer, which appears to ... and are now showing no signs of live beetles or larvae. The tiny invasive ...

The borer is a form of ambrosia beetle (Euwallacea fornicatus) that burrows into a healthy tree trunk, leaving tiny “shot-holes” like a blast from a small-bore shotgun. Once inside ...

Some trees would replace those that were decimated by the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle. WAYNE — The K-12 district is applying for a grant to cover the cost of trees to be planted in ...

The Boulevard Ash Borer replacement program was started a few years ago to help reforest areas that were heavily impacted by the beetles. One of the benefits of tackling the emerald ash borer ...

Environmental groups in northern Ontario are working to preserve black ash trees from the emerald ash borer, an invasive beetle threatening to wipe out the species. The Invasive Species Centre in ...