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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Generalizations are a simplified way to predict the behavior of almost any subject or thing without examining the situation or details. The scenario goes if X is present, then Y will occur. Alas, life ...

Plenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky insects make the tree do all the work. “What nerve!” you might say. What … gall! And you’d be right. Oak galls are caused ...

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 ...

Q: We have oaks all around our property and it sounds like someone is popping corn in the woods when we walk out among the trees. When we investigated further we found these little brown “seeds” ...