After seeing my article last week on the efficacy of systemic insecticides for bark beetles and borers in pines, a reader, Ken, wondered whether a product he was using against bronze birch borers was ...

I got an email from a reader of our column who asked why their iris was rotting fast at the root. This question caused me to think about a friend of mine who passed away a few years ago. Unfortunately ...

NORTH ADAMS — “It’s awful, just terrible,” said Thomas Moore, owner of a Williamstown tree service, The Tree Guy. “We’re losing trees like crazy. It’s like a perfect storm.” That’s word from the front ...

How do you find an insect the size of your fingertip in a densely packed forest? For Jian Duan, the answer is simple: follow the dead ash trees. On a rainy day in eastern Connecticut, Duan, a federal ...

Reviewed by Amanda Rose NewtonFact checked by Jessica Wrubel Raspberries are fairly carefree plants to grow in your garden. For most of us, the main challenges of growing these brambles are keeping ...

Mukund Choudhary and Maitree Dedhia teamed up during the pandemic to help farmers control pests, especially hard-to-detect ...

We have a purple plum tree that has given us very tasty plums for a number of years. This year, however, its branches are burdened down with hundreds of plums that won't ripen. The plums are various ...

CARBONDALE — Carl Meinecke sidles up to an ash tree and wraps a tape measure around the trunk, gathering both circumference and diameter in one move. “Diameter is 17.9 inches,” Carbondale’s town ...