A new study found differences at the cellular level of leaves from infected Beech trees -- variations that may account for tree mortality. Beech trees provide food for animals, timber for wood ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beech trees across the state are seeing worsening symptoms of the fast-spreading complex beech leaf disease, according to the ...

American beeches (Fagus grandifolia) have been suffering recently from a disease widespread in both Connecticut landscapes and forests, Beech leaf disease (BLD), caused by a foliar nematode, ...

A new tree disease has spread in forests in Massachusetts, joining invasive pests and climate change as top priorities for foresters to address. The state has found beech leaf disease in more than 90 ...

A decade after the emergence of beech leaf disease (BLD) in northeast Ohio, a new study by researchers at The Holden Arboretum reveals that American beech (Fagus grandifolia) is experiencing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fall in Northeast Ohio wouldn't be the same without the golden-yellow color of beech trees' oblong shaped leaves. But an invasive ...

A scanning electron microscope reveals nematodes (highlighted in green) inside the spongy mesophyll of a European beech (Fagus sylvatica) leaf infected with beech leaf disease (BLD). Eggs are marked ...

Pennsylvania naturalists are keeping an eye on a disease that has been killing beech trees in the eastern U.S. for more than a decade, but has begun spreading more rapidly in the past three years.

In just a decade, this unusual disease has spread from Ohio across the Northeast. Scientists are testing treatments, but answers come slowly. Backlit leaves of an American beech tree show dark bands, ...

Beech leaves infected with beech leaf disease. Photo courtesy of the Vermont Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation For the first time in Vermont, state officials with the Vermont Department of ...

The Maine Forest Service has reported the first deaths of beech trees caused by beech leaf disease. The department discovered those dead trees earlier this month in Knox County and Waldo County. The ...