Michigan is the ninth U.S. state to report beech leaf disease. There's no effective treatment for the disease, which can kill a tree in 6-10 years.

The beech tree — present in all 88 counties — plays an important role in Ohio's forests, serving as a food source and even a home for a vast array of wildlife. According to the Ohio Department ...

Beech leaf disease harms the leaf tissue of beech trees. According to DNR, there are 37 million American beech trees in the state and the species is important to the forest and its wildlife.

Through luck or (hopefully) genetics, this mighty tree has avoided contracting beech bark disease—a fatal fungal pathogen ...

A new disease impacting beech trees has spread across the state, and foresters in the Northeast believe it could be potentially devastating. Beech leaf disease was first detected in Ohio in 2012 ...

Beech bark disease and beech leaf disease both target species of beech trees. There have already been 2.5 million beech trees killed by beech bark disease so far.

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Each of those species is at risk of disappearing as Dutch elm disease, hemlock wooly adelgid, emerald ash borer, and beech leaf disease spread. If left unchecked, pests and pathogens will consume much ...

The nematode that causes beech leaf disease enters leaf buds and spends the winter in them, causing damage to leaf tissue on American, European and Asian beech species. Trees weakened by leaf ...

Beech bark disease and beech leaf disease both target species of beech trees. There have already been 2.5 million beech trees killed by beech bark disease so far.