As we pull on our winter coats to shield our tropical bodies from the cold, there is a creature in our midst that survives Alaska's coldest temperatures bare naked. The red flat bark beetle lives as ...

A few winters ago, Todd Sformo was out gathering hibernating insects from the woods near the Fairbanks International Airport. He searched for dead balsam poplar trees, looking for a beetle that spends ...

FAIRBANKS — As we pull on our winter coats to shield our tropical bodies from the cold, there is a creature in our midst that survives Alaska’s coldest temperatures bare-naked. The red flat bark ...

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Large infestations of the destructive bark beetle have become more frequent — and there's really no way to save trees once a large outbreak occurs. Diana Six, a professor at the University of Montana, ...