GREENE COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - A devastating tree disease known as laurel wilt is infecting both Greene and Beaufort counties. This disease is caused by the redbay ambrosia beetle, which carries a ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WITN) - The North Carolina Forest Service says a devastating disease has popped up in another Eastern Carolina county. Officials say laurel wilt, a disease of redbay and other plants in ...

Brown, withered leaves on red bay trees in the Kingwood residential area near Houston indicate laurel wilt. A tree disease is currently spreading throughout east Texas and is now killing off forest ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Department of Agriculture says a disease that kills sassafras trees has been detected in Dickson and Montgomery counties. The department is advising residents to be on ...

The Tennessee Department of Agriculture is advising forest landowners to monitor their sassafras trees after detecting new cases of Laurel Wilt Disease in Robertson and Hamblen Counties. Earlier this ...

ORLANDO, Fla., March 5 (UPI) --Florida's avocado industry is bouncing back from hurricane damage, but still struggles to find new, effective weapons in a war against laurel wilt fungal disease. The ...

Oak trees are seen on the hills off Santa Rosa Creek Road, bottom right, between Cambria and Highway 46 in 2011. Sudden oak death is attacking oak and bay laurel trees throughout California. Cambrian ...

The pathogen is known as laurel wilt, and mainly affects red bay, sassafras, avocados, swamp bay and other related trees. A tree disease is currently spreading throughout east Texas and is now killing ...