Q: Small shoots from the ends of branches with leaves on them are dropping from my oak tree, but it doesn’t have any galls on ...

Reported oak mortality tends to occur in a scattered or patchy pattern across the landscape. In some places, other species, ...

There has been widespread concern that some native California oaks were not regenerating adequately. Three California oak ...

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Almost half of the carbon dioxide produced on the planet is consumed by the oceans, living organisms, and plants. At the same ...

Researchers discovered two new parasitic wasp species living in the U.S., tracing their origins back to Europe and uncovering ...

Do you ever go outside to get something from your vegetable garden and stand up a half an hour later in a haze of naturalistic wonder? My partner calls it distracto-boy, and suggests I have ADD ...

We have bad news and good news. The bad one is, scientists have found two foreign varieties of wasp in seemingly well-stablished oak woods. The good news—or better said, the silver lining— is that ...

Oak gall wasps and their predators don’t have the panache of butterflies, but they’re attracting growing interest among both scientists and naturalists. Only 1 to 8 millimeters long, these small ...

According to Popular Science, the insects belong to a group of parasitoid wasps that lay their eggs in other insects or plants to survive. B. dorsalis usually targets oak gall wasps, another type of ...

Galls are small, tumor-like growths formed on plants that act as incubators for oak gall wasp larvae. Parasitic wasps often lay their own eggs in these galls, which later feed on their victims. North ...