Spring in the forest: Many insects, particularly caterpillars, hatch just when the trees' nutrient-rich leaves are still ...
In late April, across the oak forests of northern Bavaria, millions of spongy moth caterpillars hatch from egg masses glued ...
A new study reveals oak trees delay sprouting leaves by 3 days to avoid being infested by hungry caterpillars, after it ...
Oak trees delay spring leaf-out after caterpillar attacks, reducing damage by more than 50% and revealing a new way trees ...
Oak trees have a surprising trick to fight back against hungry caterpillars: they simply wait. When trees are heavily ...
The pedunculate oaks typical of Leipzig's floodplain forest and other German oak forests are struggling to regenerate in the understorey due to a lack of light. One reason for this is the absence of ...
When a gypsy moth outbreak stripped oak forests across northern Bavaria in 2019, researchers tracking the damage through ...
INJURY ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK STATE TEAM. THE 160,000 ACRES OF BERNHEIM FOREST AND ARBORETUM ARE HOME TO COUNTLESS PLANTS AND ANIMALS, AND AS OUR SAM CARTER DISCOVERED, THE FOREST NOW HAS AN EXPANDED ...
Oak trees around Minnesota have suffered from bouts of heavy precipitation and drought — conditions that make them more vulnerable to two-lined chestnut borer, a beetle that eats the inner bark of oak ...
The mountains of Mexico and Central America harbor some of the greatest biodiversity of oak trees worldwide, and a landmark ...
The Queen Oak, which is more than 600 years old, has work carried out to extend its life.