When I think of Worcester’s urban forest, I picture the giant European beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees that many of my neighbors have in their front yards. These trees, native to much of Europe, have ...

Beech leaf disease — a malady caused by a microscopic roundworm called a nematode — could devastate a beloved and ...

Beech Leaf Disease is spreading around the Northeast and the microscopic worms that come with it are attacking trees in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. WBZ-TV’s Jacob Wycoff reports. Rare 9/11 ...

WYOMISSING, Pa.- Arborists are warning about a disease affecting beech trees that is starting to emerge for the first time in our area. "The beech leaf disease originated in Ohio in 2012 and it's ...

Award winning Reporter/Author, Chris Papst, Project Baltimore, sits down with Armstrong William. by Madison Forsey GREAT FALLS, Va. (7News) — The trees in your backyard could have an aggressive ...

While out in the woods and enjoying the last bits of the fall season in late November, I expected to see the coppery-yellow leaves of the American beech rattling in the breeze. They are durable leaves ...

The first time I encountered Beech Leaf Disease was along the headwaters of the south branch of the Mehoopany Creek near its confluence with Somer Brook. I was chasing brook trout in early summer on ...

The emerald ash borer's larvae attack trees from within. Beech leaf disease from nematodes attack beech trees Various fungal species plague white pine trees. PAXTON – When it comes to invasive insects ...

BLD is caused by a nematode, or microscopic worm, that parasitizes the leaves of beech trees. While European beech are often planted as specimen trees, American beech (Fagus grandifolia) makes up ten ...