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 ...
Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A previously unidentified species of invasive parasitic wasps is now ...
Popping out of the heads of its hosts seemed strange enough. Then scientists discovered something even stranger. By JoAnna Klein To deposit its eggs, the parasitic oak gall wasp pierces a leaf or stem ...
The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 106, No. 4 (December 2023), pp. 244-247 (4 pages) Chinese banyan, Ficus microcarpa (Rosales: Moraceae), and weeping banyan, F. benjamina (Rosales: Moraceae), are ...
‘I have some weird, seemingly hollow, green, round balls falling from my oak tree. What in the world are these things?” — S.Y. You are describing an interesting growth that can occur on a variety of ...
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 ...
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” ...
Reinforcements are being called to the front lines of a wasp-on-wasp war that has native wiliwili trees in Maui County and on other Hawaiian Islands hanging in the balance. Officials are asking that a ...
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