On Monday, the City of Cape Town launched its first replanting project in the southern suburbs, aiming to restore biodiversity and ecological balance to an area once shaded by majestic box elder trees ...

According to a 2016 paper titled "Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer and Fusarium Dieback in California ... urban and forest environments. Other parts of South Africa have also experienced problems with the ...

On 20 May 2024, six trees were removed in Newlands due to a PSHB infestation, prompting a community tree planting event to ...

The tiny black beetle, in symbiosis with a ... part of the South African Polyphagous Shothole Borer Research Network. The group includes eight universities and the top scientists in this field in ...

It quickly spread to another seven of South Africa’s nine provinces with Limpopo being the ... in Newlands as to date we have managed to contain the invasive Asian borer beetle to the Somerset West ...

The polyphagous shot hole borer beetle is a 2mm long insect that is native to Southeast Asia. It carries a fungus with called Fusarium euwallacea which is part of the beetle’s food. The fungus is ...

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is an indigenous and staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa ... borer (Maruca vitrata). This pest can cause yield losses of more than 80%. The pod borer, originally from ...

A Perth council claims it's had "incredibly encouraging" results from an initial trial to stop shot-hole borer beetles from destroying ... according to your age South Australia battered by biggest ...

South Africa is facing an escalating ecological crisis – a tiny invasive beetle from Vietnam is killing ... the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) has been confirmed in eight of South Africa ...

More than 7,000 trees have been affected by tiny invasive beetles from Vietnam that are killing ... the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) has been confirmed in eight of South Africa’s nine provinces, ...

“South Africa found the shot-hole borer too late – eradication was never an opportunity. Their conservative cost-benefit analysis found this beetle will cost South Africa $28 billion over 10 year ...