Staying One Step Ahead of the Bugs: State Searches for Ash Borer to Avoid Destructive Infestation
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By Lee Bergquist, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Dec. 15--TOWN OF WAUKESHA -- With the growl of a chain saw and the scrape of a sharp blade, Wisconsin on Thursday began its first intensive search for infestations of the emerald ash borer.
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By DAN EGAN  The federal government has spent more than $100 million in the last five years in its fight to stop the tree-eating emerald ash borer.
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By James Amos, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 14--Southern Colorado forests are not affected by the widespread bark-beetle infestations seen in Northern Colorado's lodgepole pine forests.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has dispatched staffers to southeast Kansas, in an attempt to locate the source of apparent bug bites that have plagued hundreds
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Unusual insects are clinging to survival against threats from pollution and climate change, say conservationists.
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By John Dodge, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Jun. 3--A colorful butterfly that is as imperiled as the prairie habitat it depends on is making a bit of a comeback here in South Sound.
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By Jc Reindl, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Feb. 5--Ohio is preparing to escalate its battle against gypsy moths this  spring by more than doubling pesticide spraying throughout the state and  spraying 538 acres in Lucas County.
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Sightings of the light brown apple moth &#151; which can ruin everything from tomatoes to citrus fruit to alfalfa &#151; have shot up into the thousands since the insect was first discovered in the San Francisco Bay area three months ago, agriculture officials said Friday.
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A 56-year-old Placer County resident has received a &quot;preliminary positive&quot; on a test for West Nile virus. If follow-up tests are also positive, that person would be the first in the county to contract the disease.
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By JOHN COTTER  EDMONTON (CP) - Alberta communities that depend on the forest industry are calling for a long-term plan to help them cope with devastation caused by the voracious mountain pine beetle.
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The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday identified 224 counties in 20 states that don't meet new clean air standards designed to protect against one of the tiniest but most harmful pollutants &#151; microscopic soot.
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By Brian NearingALBANY -- A shiny little green beetle that already has contributed to the destruction of tens of millions of ash trees in the Midwest could next be headed toward New York state.
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By Stephen T. Watson, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Jun. 5--At Maple West Elementary School, a class of second-graders pulled together a polished PowerPoint presentation on all sorts of creepy-crawly bugs.
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PITTSBURG, Kan. - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga., has sent three medical investigators to Crawford County to help health officials isolate the bug that is responsible for biting
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By Katie N  Johannes, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 8--A hint of red can be seen on berry plants, and ash trees are just starting to turn yellow, signaling the approach of fall in the mountains.
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After a number of E. coli-related illnesses have recently been reported in the state, area health officials are asking Twin Counties residents to look for warning signs of the disease.
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A VITAL lifeline is being thrown to woodland creatures in the region threatened with extinction.  Some butterflies and moths are in severe decline, but the Forestry Commission is taking action to improve their plight.