Jumping Jehoshaphat! The ground is alive! Or so it seems when hundreds of tiny round spheres the size of a pin head are hopping around on the sidewalk. This spring there are plenty of these curious ...

Q • I have noticed a lot of weird balls growing on my oak tree, and it is starting to get a lot of dead branches. What is happening to my tree, and how can I make it healthy again? A • The structures ...

Twenty-five years ago, when rows of young pin oaks were planted along Man o' War Boulevard near the entrance to Blue Grass Airport, the idea was that columns of stately trees would someday welcome ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q • There are these large, round nodules on all the branches on my front yard oak tree. What is this disease and what should I do ...

There is, for instance, a group of insects that makes outrageous demands on plants. They're called gall wasps, tiny insects no larger than the common fruit gnat that darts about over a bowl of aging ...

This past winter was above-average in temperature. Rarely, if at all, did we have any of those bone-chilling days or nights. As a result of the mild winter, people were asking if we would see more ...

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 ...

The horned oak gall forms on twigs of Quercus palustris Muench. and is initiated when the wasp Callirhytis cornigera O.S. oviposits into the periderm or cortex of the twigs. Injury to phellogen as a ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Although we got off to a slow start to the growing season, farmers around the area are harvesting hay and gardeners have planted plenty of tomatoes, ...

CUTLINES - Q: My pin oak tree has lumpy growth on the limbs that someone said were galls. What should I do about this? I don't want to lose my tree. C. B. TulsaA: Oak tree galls come in many forms, ...

Q: My oak tree looks like it is making fruit the size of ping-pong balls. Now I know that they make acorns, so they couldn't possibly make fruit, right? What are these round plum-looking fruits ...

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 ...