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

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 suggests that oak trees attacked by caterpillars can delay leafing out the following spring. That tiny shift, ...

In late April, across the oak forests of northern Bavaria, millions of spongy moth caterpillars hatch from egg masses glued ...

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.

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

The mountains of Mexico and Central America harbor some of the greatest biodiversity of oak trees worldwide, and a landmark study conducted by The Morton Arboretum with U.S. and Mexican collaborators ...

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

The Angel Oak Tree near Charleston is over 400 years old, with massive branches and a canopy so wide it feels like stepping ...