Honeybees may be helping spread tree‑killing myrtle rust – new research

The same busy foraging that makes bees vital pollinators could also turn them into Trojan horses for a serious fungal disease ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

IN THE GARDEN: An orange gooey substance, known as cedar-quince rust, afflicts reader’s cedar trees

Q: We live on acreage just south of Little Rock. I'm attaching several photos taken today (March 7) of two large cedar trees that have grown naturally on my property (see reader photos). They are at ...
The Denver Post

Pine beetles are poised to decimate Front Range forests: ‘Our ability to stop the spread is very limited’

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado’s Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over the next five years as pine ...
OPB

How Oregon scientists are solving the problem of Crater Lake’s dying trees

In 2002, Crater Lake National Park ecologist Michael Murray thought the park’s majestic whitebark pine trees were as good as gone. An invasive fungus called white pine blister rust was killing the ...