Lately, local residents were complaining that local pine forests stopped growing and were drying up due to forest insect pests. To confirm this rumor, experts from Onon Balj National Park ...

CORVALLIS – The massive insect epidemics that have plagued Pacific Northwest forests in recent years are mostly a reflection of poor forest health conditions, overcrowding, overuse of chemicals, fire ...

An insect pest that damages the forest canopy has a reverberating impact on predator-prey interactions of large mammals, a study finds. Insect pests are considered to be ecosystem engineers because ...