One of the three wasp species the state's Division of Forests and Lands uses are tied to a tree during their release so they can emerge in their own time. Earlier this summer, during a scheduled tree ...

An ash tree with an emerald ash borer trap is pictured in Oklahoma.(Photo by Dieter Rudolph/Provided by Oklahoma Forestry Services) On a day in early June, state forester Will Phifer carried a pill ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – When the emerald ash borer was first found in Forest Grove in June 2022, the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon Department of Agriculture took the discovery very ...

PROSPECT, Conn. (AP) — An army of citizen scientists and a native species of wasp helped detect the first emerald ash borers to arrive in Connecticut. The tiny metallic green aliens from Asia have ...

On an early summer day in 2016, entomologist Jian Duan arrived at a nondescript office building in north Houston to deliver some bad news—and some good. Texas forestry officials had notified Duan a ...

It's Halloween, so prepare to be terrified. And no, this column has nothing to do with Open Enrollment Season. Instead, it relates to the emerald cockroach wasp, a wisp of an insect that you may have ...

Ash trees are dead or dying because of the little iridescent green beetle The emerald ash borer's small size – no bigger than a cooked grain of rice – belies its destructive power. The beetle’s ...

DES MOINES — Thousands of stingless wasps are being enlisted to slow the onslaught of an imported pest attacking Iowa’s ash trees. Officials with the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land ...

Forestry officials in the US are releasing non-native species of parasitic wasps into our forests by the thousands, but there ...

If you loathe cockroaches, you’re going to love the emerald jewel wasp. Females of the species Ampulex compressa, known also as emerald cockroach wasps, are less than an inch long and decked out in ...

Imagine a predator that doesn’t just kill its prey, but performs a high-stakes “brain surgery” to turn it into a willing ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Emerald Wasp Operation Rassvet was a model of surprise. It started as an intelligence operation and ended up becoming one of the most mysterious ...