RENO BOTTOMS - The elm tree that towered over Andy Meier was a survivor. At 37 inches around and about 150 years old, it had so far avoided Dutch elm disease, the fungus that wiped out many of its ...

The American elm tree has all but died off in this country. In Castine, Maine, residents have found a way to keep their precious citizens thriving.

American elm trees are being feasted on by larvae of the larger elm leaf beetle, Slye said. This native half-inch beetle has blueish-black stripes across its orange back and its larvae have a ...

by Paul Hetzler (Naturalist) , in Val-des-Monts, QC American elm tree on Old South Street, Northampton, MA (October 2019). Photo: Msact, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Jul 02, 2022 — ...

If elm trees are within 50 feet of one another, this fusing is likely. For this reason, when a single tree becomes infected with DED, the fungus can move down the roots into nearby trees.

Grand Forks still loses more than 100 trees a year to Dutch elm disease, even as its threat has decreased in recent decades. Dutch elm was first found in Grand Forks in 1979 and reached its height ...