A recently discovered wasp can apparently control the minds of its victims. Euderus set, otherwise known as the crypt-keeper wasp, has the uncanny ability to control the actions of multiple species of ...
Scientists from Rice University, Texas, have identified a parasitic plant that preys on both trees and the wasps that use them as a nursery for their young. The team hope that their macabre discovery ...
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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 ...
The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 106, No. 4 (December 2023), pp. 244-247 (4 pages) Chinese banyan, Ficus microcarpa (Rosales: Moraceae), and weeping banyan, F. benjamina (Rosales: Moraceae), are ...
Work will begin Friday to remove six banyan trees on the front lawn of McKinley High School. The state Department of Education says the trees have been significantly damaged by an island-wide ...
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The growths pictured on a reader's red oak, called galls, are an indication the tree is stressed.(Tommy Byrd) I have two red oak trees in my front yard that are about 10 years old. One of the trees ...
Q: The oaks in our neighborhood have some type of gall or insect egg case under each leaf. It is about the size of a pencil eraser and is fuzzy tan. Should we be concerned? - B.S., Houston A: It ...