Great Lakes region, including Michigan – and climate change is largely to blame. A mix of factors is in play, including rising temperatures, more severe and intense rainstorms, increasing ...

Becoming our state insect wouldn’t give the regal fritillary any new conservation statuses or protections, though Iowa’s ...

Planting an oak tree, if you have the room, provides acorns and leaves that feed and provide cover for millions of organisms and species while also sequestering carbon.

“Make it oaks, because they support the most wildlife,” Tallamy said in an interview with the Globe. “The lawn is the worst plant for sequestering carbon. The roots are shallow, and you cut half of ...

It seems that every 2-7 years, oak trees, both red and white, produce a heavy “mast” year, a bumper crop, of acorns.

Identify common garden insects with these garden bugs’ pictures and descriptions ... indicating it was a tree frog. This frog can camouflage itself, from gray to green or brown.

Oct. 24, 2024 — Plants communicate through volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that help them respond to herbivorous pest attacks. This review explored the mechanisms behind these plant ...

While looking at my hackberry tree, the leaves were covered with this small round growth. Is it a disease, insect or just ...

CT is among several eastern states that conduct an annual acorn survey. Here's what researchers found this year.

I know what you’re thinking, “But bugs are ugly and gross and they’re pests!” This can be true in some cases, because not every bug is helpful. However, a lot of the common bugs we see every day are ...

At Muskauer Park on the German-Polish river border, groundskeepers are betting on natural regeneration to increase tree-count ...

Oak Island Tree Program Manager Brice Taylor stumbled on a hidden gem recently - a live southern oak tree - while evaluating ...