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Q: I have two questions. The first concerns the three-to-six inch deep layer of needles under my spruce trees; the trees are 40 or so feet tall. I have cut off many of the lower limbs so I have access ...

Within a few days, a blue spruce was transformed from a bright and handsome tree to a sad, brown structure, retaining only its oldest needles on its lower branches. A horde of Douglas-fir tussock ...

The spruce budworm is a native moth that, when in its caterpillar stage, defoliates fir and spruce trees. Three times in the 1900’s, the last being in the late 1980’s, it reached epidemic proportions ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Dave Alvin, owner of East Slope Outdoors in Big Sky spends his days doing what he loves- ...

I never heard of gypsy moths on blue spruce, but they’re eating the top of mine! What do I spray? It’s too prickly to band. Gypsy moths are back, and spruce is a new target. It’s too late this year to ...

Spruce moths are out on the Beaverhead, Big Hole, Gallatin and upper Madison rivers. According to Frontier Anglers in Dillon, the town has been overrun with moths fluttering around in parking lots, ...

In the last decade, 7 million hectares of boreal forest in Eastern Canada have been destroyed by the voracious insect known as the spruce budworm. And the outbreak is heading south again this spring.