These half-inch long, invasive Orsillus maculatus, a spore-spreading seed bug, were found inside undeclared cypress cones at ...

Ag News Wire By Gary Wyatt, an agroforestry educator University of Minnesota Extension Conifers are planted as shelterbelts, windbreaks, living snow fences and winter wildlife thermal cover on ...

The orsillus maculatus, a rare spore spreading seed bug, is known to be invasive to cypress and conifer trees.

Michigan's millions of conifer trees may have just dodged a bad bug. U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced this week ...

A foreign pest that spreads fungal spores and poses a danger to native trees in Michigan and the U.S. was discovered at ...

Mr Rushforth collected seed from Pinus armandii in Kunming, China, in 1980, and those he gave to me have powerful, pendulous cones merging with drooping leaves on trees that have grown extremely well ...

US Customs and Border Protection said agents intercepted invasive insects known to damage cypress trees and carry fungus ...

Dawn redwood trees once were believed extinct. The towering trees have been quietly growing in Michigan for decades.