Acorn woodpeckers, oak titmouse and California scrub jay nest in oak branches ... but only a few grow to be a mature tree. The rest become food for animals and insects. Of the numerous insects ...

Fruit-bearing plants, piles of leaves and other backyard choices can bring birds and get rid of insects ... preferably 60 feet. Tree swallows: They will nest in bluebird boxes.

plant an oak tree, according to research from University of Delaware entomologist Doug Tallamy. The reason? It’s all about the bugs and, more specifically to places like Minnesota, the caterpillars.

Many insects and birds make the oak tree their home - making nests in the boughs, or eating its leaves. Other creatures like living at the bottom of the tree, eating dead leaves. This clip ...

He explores the weird world of gall wasps, tiny insects that genetically modify the tree to grow some of the most bizarre structures in the natural world and discovers how ink made from oak galls ...