"The characters, along with the audience, will rediscover the meaning of family, faith, and hope during the Christmas season, ...

Wood ducks thrive on a flexible diet of acorns, plants, and insects, helping them recover across North America.

The Shumway Oak Grove Regional Park in Stockton launched an autumn nature walk for the community to get an inside look at how important California's historic oak trees are, especially during the fall.

Not everyone seems to get as excited about galls as I do. A gall is an abnormal growth on a plant. Galls can occur anywhere– leaves, stems or roots and are usually caused by insects, fungi, or ...

Scientists have identified two previously unknown species of parasitic wasps spreading across the US, from New York to the Pacific coast. Originally from Europe, these tiny predators lay their eggs ...

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 ...

Two species of Bootanomyia dorsalis wasps introduced to North America from Europe A, B variation in the extent of wing infumation from a single collection of B. dorsalis sp. 2 from Neuroterus ...

Dear Neil: My red oak is about 10 years old. Some of the leaves are starting to look distressed, so I looked closely. I noticed small red ants climbing up and down the trunk almost as if they are ...

Dear Reader: These are galls that have resulted from the stings of the tree tissue by a small wasp as she lays her eggs in the current season’s growth. Oaks are host plants to scores of different ...

If you spend enough time looking at and working with plants, you’ll inevitably come across galls. Galls are abnormal growths and can be caused by a variety of different organisms, including insects ...

PASSING a group of young oak trees I was struck by the difference between the green, healthy trees, and others on which the leaves were ...