Dr. Andrew Loyd, a plant pathologist for the F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company, described beech leaf disease as a ...

B eech leaf disease is spreading in Vermont, threatening the state's beech trees. The disease, first detected in Ohio about a ...

Near the bottom of a shady hillside in Jericho, a lone beech tree stretches high into the canopy, a relic of a bygone forest.

The Maine Forest Service reported the first deaths of beech trees caused by beech leaf disease earlier this month.

Beech bark disease is caused by the scale insect Cryptococcus fagisuga, Neese says, and it has been striking trees in North America since the late 1800s. "This disease is accelerated by an ...

The red fruiting bodies of the fungus can be seen on the bark cankers and will mature in the fall. This pathogen causes significant mortality in American beech trees. Beech-nuts begin to ripen in the ...

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The infection wiped out most big beech trees in Massachusetts' forests. During the hike at the Middlesex Fells, the group examines two different types of acorns they have found on the path.

In just a few decades, the climate in many of the world’s forests will be so changed that many trees will have difficulty surviving. For example, in wide parts of lowland Central Europe, there is a ...

Michigan is the ninth U.S. state to report beech leaf disease. There's no effective treatment for the disease, which can kill a tree in 6-10 years.

Beech, often used for firewood, is of much less commercial value than some species of birch and maple trees that can be used to make furniture and flooring. "There's no easy answer to this one.