Tip When you suspect an infestation of wood-boring insects in or around your home, it may be necessary to call an expert.

But the woodpecker prefers its mature and old-growth trees to be snags — because it loves to eat the wood-boring beetles that flock to large dead and moribund trees, responding to insect outbreaks ...

As a result, Abraham says it takes a long cold spell with really cold temperatures to kill off an emerald ash borer beetle. According to Purdue University, it would have to get down to about minus 28 ...

The shothole borer is a small beetle that can kill an entire tree by ... or logs unless you have taken proper steps to sanitize the wood in consultation with an arborist. This video describes ...