Rows of uniform holes, either horizontal (most commonly) or vertical, might look like an insect attack, but they are more likely caused by a bird with an unusual name – the yellow-bellied sapsucker ...

“The Berkshires has a long history of trees,” Rene Wendell says via phone. For the past seven years, Wendell has worked as a land steward in Western Massachusetts for The Nature Conservancy in their ...

Drive down practically any street in Winston-Salem and you will find an ever-increasing number of weird trees. These trees are not naturally or inherently weird. They did not grow to be weird or ...

In late July, I heard from someone here in the Napa Valley very concerned about a small tree in their front yard being attacked by something strange. And it was spreading to the neighbor’s plants. The ...

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Scientists have discovered 374-million-year-old tree fossils from the dawn of Earth’s forests — and found that these strange plants literally had to rip themselves apart as they grew. The fossils, ...

Have you noticed a strange growth in your cedar trees? What you may be seeing is a disease called cedar apple rust. The growth is called a gall. These galls are light brown, reddish or chocolate brown ...