Earlier this month my colleague, LyAnn Graff, brought in an interesting looking fuzz ball surrounding a thin leafy branch of a burr oak tree. It was about the size of a golf ball, but with red-tipped ...

Q: My oak tree looks like it is making fruit the size of ping-pong balls. Now I know that they make acorns, so they couldn't possibly make fruit, right? What are these round plum-looking fruits ...

Something akin to Christmas balls are showing up in trees throughout Connecticut, and state officials are warning admirers the festive decorations are actually communities of wasps. The tan-colored ...

When you look up into the bare branches of some oak trees at this time of year, you can see ball-shaped growths hanging there, looking almost like nature’s Christmas ornaments. These are galls. A gall ...

In this age of housing developments and planned communities graced with such names as Whispering Woods, compatibility of appearance becomes an important attribute. The exterior of a house proposed for ...

We all know forests harbor diverse ecosystems... As such, even in densely populated areas, trees of all shapes and sizes thrive. I only live about ten minutes outside of the city, and I have towering ...

Oak gall wasps and their predators don’t have the panache of butterflies, but they’re attracting growing interest among both scientists and naturalists. Only 1 to 8 millimeters long, these small ...