If you spend enough time looking at and working with plants, you’ll inevitably come across galls. Galls are abnormal growths and can be caused by a variety of different organisms, including insects ...

Every year the eastern cottonwood trees in Michigan release their fluffy seeds. The end of June likely marks the end of this ...

Recently, after writing about mangoes, I received the following email from Steve Huffman: “It might be worth mentioning that mango sap can cause skin irritation similar to poison ivy. When I was a ...

Toxic and poisonous plants grow in Michigan, including giant hogweed, poison ivy, poison oak, wild parsnip, poison sumac and poison hemlock. Contact with the plants can cause skin irritation ...

The caterpillars of the oak processionary moths are a pest that poses a significant threat to humans, animals and oak trees. At USAG Ansbach a total of 450 oaks can be found across the installations.

Male and female flowers grow on the same white oak tree. The male flowers are yellow-green drooping clusters, while the female flowers are small, red, and without petals. Male flowers become elongated ...

Tree pollen season begins when the weather warms again. However, as temperatures in North Carolina stay warmer for longer, pollen season has both started earlier and ended later than it did in ...

Tree pollen is prevalent in spring, grass pollen in summer, and ragweed in fall. In addition to taking antihistamines this allergy season, other remedies include nasal irrigation, air filters and ...

Many in the metro may be waking up with extreme headaches and sinus pressure as the cedar, oak and birch trees bud. Tree pollen typically triggers allergies in the spring, followed by grass pollen ...

An oak tree with new leaf growth also shows pollen hanging amongst the branches at a park in Richardson, Texas, Thursday, March 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) By Kenya Hunter | Associated Press ...