A new study from Holden Forests & Gardens and a team at USDA Agricultural Research Service confirms that beech leaf disease—a fast-spreading disease already devastating American beech across eastern ...

NEWPORT — A new pathogen, discovered in Ohio 10 years ago, has made its arrival in Newport and poses a serious threat to the city's finest collection of trees, its beloved beeches. According to a ...

The beech tree, with its gray bark and striking red foliage, is a staple of the state's landscape. American beech trees are native to the eastern U.S. and grow in most states. Colonists brought ...

Beech leaf disease is out there once again, decimating beech trees in Massachusetts, as it has in the past. It's a relatively new tree disease, which first appeared in 2012 in Ohio, and has since ...

There’s a disease wreaking havoc on beech trees in Pennsylvania. Beech leaf disease currently is found in all but two of the state’s 67 counties. Caused by microscopic nematodes, the disease infects ...

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 ...