Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's that time of the season if you have a silver maple tree in your yard or in the neighborhood. The seeds are falling in great ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Whirligigs? Helicopter seeds? Or perhaps the scientific name – samaras -- for the silver maple seeds flying in yards this spring. Whatever you call them, some WCCO-TV viewers have ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Seeds, samaras, helicopters: Whatever you call maple seeds, there is a bumper crop this spring in Iowa.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – You may have noticed something different about the maple tree seeds this year: they’re pink. In the past few weeks, maple trees have been dropping samaras, or more commonly ...

Kids love to throw them in the air and watch them twirl and float down, or pick them apart to examine the seeds inside. Adults don't usually think of silver maple seeds, or "helicopter seeds" -- those ...

There were helicopters everywhere! It was snowing helicopters in my garden and lawn last weekend! AAACCCCKKKK! These helicopters were the fruits of the silver maple trees and were abundant. Many ...

You may have noticed lots of those helicopter maple tree seeds filling up rain gutters or piling up on the sidewalk this year. State Forester Tivon Feeley says the large amount of seeds created a ...

If you think you’ve been seeing an invasion of helicopters this year, you’re not imagining things. Southern Minnesota maple trees are producing a copious amount of seeds that flutter from their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The silver maple tree (Acer saccharinum) is one of the most common trees in North America. It generally grows 50 to 80 feet tall, ...