A leaf on a Silver Maple tree with Maple Bladder Gall which is caused by Eriophyid mites. skhoward/Getty Images Trees are an essential part of the food chain for some insects and tree pests.

Ryan Hegarty, assistant director of Stockton University's Maple Project, touches a tap he placed into a red maple tree on Feb. 21, 2024, in Galloway, New Jersey.

Using red maple trees as an example, Johnson said some years they will have 20% female flowers, the part that pollinates and creates seeds. In other years, the same tree might produce 60% female ...

Maple trees give life to syrup, shitakes and a heat that can warm up the coldest early spring nights in maple growing parts of Minnesota. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Read Today's Paper Tuesday, May 27 ...

This is in part because it takes up to 50 gallons of sap from a sugar maple tree to make just one gallon of finished ...