Does your pin oak look like it’s breaking out in little bumps Those odd, round growths are called twig galls, and they’re ...

Seeing a pine pollen cone, oak catkin or sower gall once each year is enough to continue to marvel at their beauty, unique ...

INSECTS do not usually give us humans too much concern. However, if one studies even a tiny bit of natural history topics ...

New scientific research confirms Irish provenance of manuscripts on loan from Switzerland, returning to Ireland for the first ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

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There are three major types of diseases that affect blue spruce trees: needlecasts, tip blights, and canker diseases. The two ...

You won't have to wait long to attract a range of pollinators to your yard with any of these rapidly-growing trees. They'll ...

The nests, also called oak galls, are formed when a gall wasp lays eggs in a tree’s leaf buds as a home for the larva to develop. The chemical substance introduced by wasps to make the galls is what ...

Acacia gall wasp There is significant damage caused to already vulnerable waterways, streams and rivers by the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes). Its removal is currently done manually or, when ...