Many people like to have some trees in their landscape. Our property has both white and pin oaks (a member of the red oak group). I recently saw an oak gall on a small pin oak. This is created when a ...

Oak trees have been with us from the very beginning of time. When God created the oak tree and the acorn, whichever came first, we were blessed with one of the sturdiest and useful plants for our ...

A heritage oak fell in Anneke and Ray Dempsey’s Palo Alto yard during the March 14, 2023 storm. Courtesy Anneke and Ray Dempsey. Anneke Dempsey was concerned about the giant oak in her backyard for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images There’s a reason it’s called the Mighty Oak: Oak trees are stately trees that can live for hundreds (yes, hundreds!) ...

Most oak tree insects in the larval stage just sit there in oak branches. They have glycerine, a kind of antifreeze that allows them to survive even the harshest winters. In the fall acorns, the seed ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Anyone who’s visited Ann Arbor’s West Park in the last year or so and looked up may have noticed more branches on some of Tree Town’s majestic oaks going bare. The bur oaks serve as a ...

The Linden Oak, a tree that has likely been around since at least George Washington’s birth in 1732, was cut down Tuesday by a Montgomery County, Maryland, forestry crew. The chainsaws and wood ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- People have been saying goodbye to a mighty oak tree at the Lincoln Park Zoo. It's stood the test of time, but is now at the end of its natural life according to the zoo's ...

I might unwittingly be carving out a new role for myself at Noozhawk — entomology (insect) writer. My last column was about termites and ants. This time, following Santa Barbara’s recent oak moth ...

Anneke Dempsey was concerned about the giant oak in her backyard for years. The weight of its massive limbs could potentially cause the tree or branches to fall onto her or her neighbor’s home, she ...