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.

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 ...

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 ...

According to the USDA Forestry Service, sugar maple trees are common to the northern parts of our country and Canada. They studied cases of maple dieback and decline in both urban and forest setting.

Boiling sap from maple trees at Wood Lake Nature Center, in Richfield, Minn., in 2022. JERRY HOLT •[email protected] (Jerry Holt/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...