Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Trees produce antibodies against harmful fungi. But bark beetles absorb these antibodies and use them to their own advantage. And ...

Nature gives rise to fascinating adaptations, which can sometimes lead to organisms living in some strange situations. The relationship between bark beetles, spruce trees, and a type of fungus is a ...

Far from being defenceless, plants have acquired all kinds of weird and wacky ways to protect themselves against pests and predators. Some, according to a study in the Journal of Chemical Ecology, ...

In the Thuringian Forest or the Harz Mountains, dead spruce trees (Picea abies) dot the landscape like skeletons. Many have already fallen or been cut down. These dead trees serve as memorials to the ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — When searching for a Christmas tree to bring home this year, you may face a decline in spruce trees across Indiana as a sickness is causing them to lose their glow. Spruce ...

Question: We have a spruce lined border to the back of our subdivision that our yard is a part of. Many of the trees are beginning to lose all the needles on a few low branches on each tree. It looks ...

The Penn State Extension of Berks County Master Gardeners will be featuring questions and answers to inquiries received through their Garden Hotline. Q: What are those blue-green growths on trees and ...

Bark beetles can destroy spruce forests by converting the trees' defences into even more toxic substances, scientists recently discovered. But a special fungus can help the trees circumvent this ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — When searching for ...