MISSOURI (KSNF/KODE) — University of Missouri Extension’s Plant Diagnostic Clinic, in partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), is offering free testing for all common oak tree ...

Oak trees are a staple across the United States, offering shade, beauty, and supporting the ecology of many residential landscapes. As a homeowner, they'll also add value to your property if they're ...

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.

A binational collaborative project is exploring environmental factors that affect the northward expansion of oak wilt, a fatal tree disease spread by sap beetles. Researchers from Michigan ...

Texas forest officials are trying to stop residents from pruning their trees in the new year to guard against a deadly tree disease known as oak wilt. Winter is typically the best time to trim trees, ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — A systemic, lethal, oak tree disease has hit Ann Arbor’s Bird Hills Nature Area. Oak wilt, as it’s called, is caused by a fungus that so far has affected a cluster of red oak trees in ...

A mammoth Penn Charter-era Red Oak that has spread its canopy over Collingdale for hundreds of years has been taken down, brought low by disease. Tree surgeons from Executive Tree Care spent Thursday ...

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 ...