Our strawberries got a kind of a mold on them this year. We have never had that problem before. Help! Grey mold is a fungus (Botrytis cinerea). Berries are attacked at all stages of development and ...

Bark beetles may use receptors in their antennae to detect and feast on fungus-infected trees. The Eurasian spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) – found in Europe, Asia and some parts of Africa – ...

All over Gem County, the Fire Blight fungus is taking over. What starts as a bacterial ooze, quickly turns to the tree’s bark becoming dark and eventually causing tree limbs to break off. Fire blight, ...

Dear Neil: I recently discovered a large kind of shelf-shaped growth at the base of one of my large pecan trees and another, smaller one growing on the opposite side of the tree. The tree was pruned ...

The list of diseases attacking trees in the Pacific Northwest grows every year. A pathogen new to Pierce County brings an added concern: It can injure people. A research project using citizen ...