A new study reveals oak trees delay sprouting leaves by 3 days to avoid being infested by hungry caterpillars, after it ...

Forests don’t always wake up as soon as spring arrives. Sometimes, they hold back. A new study suggests that oak trees ...

An infestation of caterpillars can make an oak tree postpone when it opens its leaves next year by three days, wrong-footing ...

Oak trees delay spring leaf-out after caterpillar attacks, reducing damage by more than 50% and revealing a new way trees ...

When a gypsy moth outbreak stripped oak forests across northern Bavaria in 2019, researchers tracking the damage through ...

Oak trees are stately trees that can live for hundreds of years. These are the most common types of native oak trees that ...

A new study shows that oak trees attacked by caterpillars can delay their spring leaf emergence by about three days, disrupting the insects’ feeding cycle. This shift cut future leaf damage by over ...

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 ...

Waiting until the leaves drop in fall is a rule of thumb for pruning shade trees, mainly because you can see bare limbs better, and the job is less “messy” without leaves attached to the cut branches.

Oak trees have a surprising trick to fight back against hungry caterpillars: they simply wait. When trees are heavily ...