ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Some residents have noticed small acorn-like balls in their yard or around their oak trees, but with acorn season not starting until the fall, what are they? The balls ...

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) — Some West Texas residents have noticed small acorn-like balls in their yard or around their oak trees, but with acorn season not starting until the fall, what are they?

Hundreds of species of small wasps called gall wasps live in the forests of North America. Hundreds more species of them are spread worldwide. In Southeast Missouri oak trees are a favorite host plant ...

Many coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) trees are showing unusual browning in their canopies in the last month or two. If you look carefully, you may see small, crescent-shaped galls forming on the ...

Residents of Leon and Wakulla counties may be noticing dead or dying laurel oaks in yards or along the roads. If you look at these trees carefully, you will see round, wooden balls on the twigs and ...

Woolly oak gall Goldenrod ball gall and bunch gall on same plant. Ruth Smith photo. Oak apple gall. Ruth Smith photo. A friend sent me a text message recently in which she asked, “Any idea what these ...

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 ...

In northern New England, acorns ripen in late summer and normally drop from oak trees from September through October. They may fall earlier, however, for a host of reasons, from eager squirrels ...

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 ...

It can be unnerving to find that the leaves of an oak or hackberry tree are as bumpy as a rock-covered seashore in late summer. Other trees’ leaves may break out in acne-like red spots or sport ...