There is a common native tree that helps wildlife survive winter by providing both food and shelter. That tree is the humble box elder, Acer negundo. Even though they are a type of maple, box elder ...

Back when stink bugs (Halyomorpha halys) were first found in Pennsylvania and I heard the horror stories of home invasions, I steeled myself mentally for the inevitable in our own house. Thankfully, ...

Q I was cleaning out a flower bed around my maple tree and the leaves and weeds were just crawling with some kind of red bug, hundreds of them. What are they? Are they doing anything to my plants or ...

The brittle leaves of our scarce prairie hardwood trees dropped months ago, so what are all the brown clusters hanging from the limbs of box elders? They’re seedpods, known as samaras, and they’re ...