With time, your beech tree's bark will become covered in cankers. The tree may also show signs of overall decline, such as yellowing leaves, stunted growth, and dead branches.

Beech bark disease (BBD) is a complex forest syndrome that poses significant threats to beech-dominated ecosystems in North America and Europe. Initiated by the feeding activity of the scale ...

Grand Rapids Early signs of beech bark disease found on tribal land trees in Allegan County Published: Feb. 09, 2015, 6:30 p.m. 6 1/6 Beech scale discovered in Allegan County ...

Beech leaf disease is the latest in the litany of debilitating forest diseases to be accidentally imported or that have expanded north as our weaker winters stop protecting us from all the nasty ...

Although beech trees often live hundreds of years with sweet hearts and initials marked on their bark, it's not always a love note you see; as we found when removing ivy from a beech trunk - angry ...

The native Pennsylvania trees are being attacked by two separate diseases — beech bark disease, which moves very slowly, and beech leaf disease, which is rapidly deteriorating the trees' population.

That problem -- beech bark disease. It’s been in Vermont for decades. Scale insects eat away at bark, leaving vulnerable spots where fungus infects the tree.

Scientists are tracking the spread of beech leaf disease through Vermont's forests. The disease, caused by a microscopic ...