US News Archive
Bad news borers arrive in San Jose
by Randall Oliver, Dispatch Newsletter of the California Invasive Plant Council, Spring 2024
Scientists make inroads against tree-killing pests
by Randall Oliver, Western Farm Press, January 24, 2023
A 'perfect testing ground' for shothole borer
by Randall Oliver, Western Farm Press, June 15, 2022
Invasive Shothole Borers Threaten California's Urban Forests
by Dr. Beatriz Nobua-Behrmann and Randall Oliver, UC IPM Home & Garden Newsletter, Spring 2022
How to protect your trees from invasive beetles killing SoCal's urban forests
by Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, February 23, 2022
Invasive beetles are killing SoCal's trees. Can this local surfer stop them?
by Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, February 23, 2022
No sign of tree-killing invasive beetle in Sacramento County after first months of surveillance
by Michael Finch II, The Sacramento Bee, July 22, 2021
No Cause for Alarm - Letters to the Editor
by Randall Oliver, The Malibu Times, July 8, 2021
by Rosi Dagit, The Canyon Chronicle, June 30, 2021
Invasive Beetle Threatens Malibu
by Genevieve Finn, The Malibu Times, June 11, 2021
Tehama County supervisors approve survey for agricultural pest
by Jake Hutchison, Red Bluff Daily News, April 9, 2021
Beetle In the Tijuana River Valley Caused Damage To Willows Until 2019
Tiny Invasive Beetles Killing Trees in the Santa Monica Mountains
by Jimy Tallal, The Malibu Times, February 26, 2021
A New Insect Pest Threatens Our Trees
by Wayne Farnsworth and Randall Oliver, Community Associations Institute Channel Islands Chapter Blog, January 2021
by Erika Ritchie, Orange County Register, December 20, 2020
Growing Threat - Small Beetles Pose a Growing Threat in Inland Empire Communities
by Randall Oliver, Connect Magazine, 2020 Issue Four, Courtesy of Community Associations Institute Greater Inland Empire
San Diego forests threatened by invasive borer beetles
by staff, The Coast News Group, November 5, 2020
Tiny Beetles Threaten Our Local Trees: Is Your Community Ready?
by Randall Oliver, Focus Magazine, July/August 2020, copyright by CAI Greater Los Angeles Chapter.
Hidden Menace Attacking Trees in Our Communities
by Randall Oliver, OC View, July/August 2020, copyright by CAI, Orange County Chapter, all rights reserved.
by Marilyn Smith, Vision Magazine, Summer 2020 - Copyright 2020 by California Association of Community Managers (CACM). All rights reserved. This article is posted here with permission from CACM.
Shot Hole Borer in the Tijuana River?
by Ben Faber, UC ANR Blog - Topics in Subtropics, 6/3/2020
Echo - Executive Council for Homeowners newsletter, May 2020
by Debra Tash, Citizens Journal, 4/3/2020
Ventura County will get $750,000 to clear fire-prone dead trees
by Mo Jezi, Ventura County Star, 1/9/2020
by Thomas Larson, San Diego Reader, 11/20/2019
L.A.'s first 'tree officer' is trying to plant 90,000 trees by 2021
by Jackie Flynn Mogensen, grist, 10/6/2019
Situation update on the polyphagus shot hole borer in California
by Jesus Lara, Deene Husein, Christine Dodge, Sonia Rios, Richard Stouthamer, CAPCA Adviser Magazine, 10/2/2019
A Tiny Beetle has Decimated Hundreds of SoCal Trees. Now experts are worried about Sacramento
by Michael Finch II, Sacramento Bee, 9/19/2019
by Donald M Grossman, Akif Eskalen, Cavell Brownie, Journal of Economic Entomology, 1/12/2019
So Many Shot Hole Borers: New research charts four nearly identical species
by Jiri Hulcr and Jackson Landers, Entomology Today, 1/7/2019
Reducing the Spread of Invasive Pests in Cut Wood and Managing ISHB in Southern California
by California Firewood Task Force, Beatriz Nobua-Behrmann, UC IPM Green Bulletin, Fall 2018
Beetle Mania: The Nasty Insect that is Killing the Trees of Johannesburg
by Adam Welz, Yale Environment 360, 10/16/2018
Racing to Stop the Destructive Shot Hole Borer
by Kathy Morrison, CNPS Flora Magazine, August 1, 2018
Tiny Beetle Killing Trees, Ups Fire Risk in San Diego
by May Tjoa, NBC 7 News, 7/4/2018
Passage of AB 2054 Creates ISHB Research & Management Plan
by East County Magazine, 5/29/2018
Southern California trees under threat from infestation
by Keith Scheuer, The Hub, April 24, 2018
by Anne Raver, Landscape Architecture Magazine, 3/13/2018
by Nan Sterman, The San Diego Union Tribune, 1/31/18
San Diego County Approves Two Million Dollar Tree Planting Program
by CBS8, 1/11/2018
Drought and Bugs Have Killed Tens of Thousands of Trees in the Santa Monica Mountains
by Louis Sahagun, LA Times, 12/5/2017
NEW! The Shot Hole Borer Beetle Could Kill 38% of All Trees in the L.A. Region
by Akif Eskalen & Shannon Lynch, LA Times, 11/30/17
LA's Palm Trees are Dying, Changing the City's Famous Skyline
by Ally J Levine, LA Times, 9/22/2017
Search Continues for Methods to Control Fungus-Farming Beetle in SoCal Trees
by Meredith Swett Walker, Entomology Today, 7/12/2017
Forest Pest Invasions Can - And Should - Be Studied Before They Happen
by Jiri Hulcr, Ph.D., Entomology Today, 7/6/2017
Scientists bet on parasitic wasps to beat shot hole borer
by Matt Bloom, KPCC, 6/29/2017
Tree will Need Replacing with More Resilient Species
by Aaron Schrank, NPR Market Place, 6/7/2017
Southern California Trees Threatened by Borer Beetles
by Sandy DeSimone, California Audubon, 6/6/2017
All the Trees will Die, and Then So Will You
by Adam Rogers, Wired.com, 5/9/2017
Insects Ravage Trees in the Southland
by Louis Sahagun, LA Times, 5/7/2017
'Unprecedented' Tree Die-off Hits Southern California
by Marissa Cabrera & Maureen Cavanaugh, KPBS, San Diego, 4/26/2017
The Trees That Make Southern California Shady and Green Are Dying. Fast.
by Louis Sahagun, LA Times, 4/19/2017
by Julie Cohen, The Current (UC Santa Barbara), 1/5/2017
Newly discovered beetle decimates trees in Tijuana River Valley
by Nancy Aziz, CW6 News, San Diego, 9/2016
by Chris O'Neal, Ventura County Reporter, 7/10/2016
Beetles Eating Millions of Trees are Creating a Fire Risk in Parts of Orange County
by Aaron Orlowski, Orange County Register, 7/5/2016
Why Doesn't State Government Take Action to Contain Pests Threatening CA Tree Species?
by Faith Campbell, Center for Invasive Species Prevention, 7/1/2016
Forestry Officials Ramp Up Fight Against Invasive Beetles
by Maureen Cavanaugh, Michael Lipkin, David Wagner, KPBS News, San Diego, 5/11/2016
The insect that could destroy California's avocado crop
by Erika Aguilar, KPCC, 4/12/2016
UC Irvine's Leafy Campus is Now One Big Laboratory to Fight Tree-killing Beetle
by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times, 3/31/2016
Avocado beetle could spread uncontrollably
by Joshua Emerson Smith, The San Diego Union Tribune, 1/2/2016
Scientists fight to save iconic UC Irvine trees from invasive beetle
by Sanden Totten, KPCC, 7/21/2015
Beetle Infestation Killing Trees at UC Irvine
by Greg Lee, ABC7 News, 4/21/2015