ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) — Some West Texas residents have noticed small acorn-like balls in their yard or around their oak trees, but with acorn season not starting until the fall, what are they?

Hundreds of species of small wasps called gall wasps live in the forests of North America. Hundreds more species of them are spread worldwide. In Southeast Missouri oak trees are a favorite host plant ...

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – Some residents have noticed small acorn-like balls in their yard or around their oak trees, but with acorn season not starting until the fall, what are they? The balls ...

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 ...

In northern New England, acorns ripen in late summer and normally drop from oak trees from September through October. They may fall earlier, however, for a host of reasons, from eager squirrels ...

Residents of Leon and Wakulla counties may be noticing dead or dying laurel oaks in yards or along the roads. If you look at these trees carefully, you will see round, wooden balls on the twigs and ...

‘I have some weird, seemingly hollow, green, round balls falling from my oak tree. What in the world are these things?” — S.Y. You are describing an interesting growth that can occur on a variety of ...

Q: We have oaks all around our property and it sounds like someone is popping corn in the woods when we walk out among the trees. When we investigated further we found these little brown “seeds” ...

It can be unnerving to find that the leaves of an oak or hackberry tree are as bumpy as a rock-covered seashore in late summer. Other trees’ leaves may break out in acne-like red spots or sport ...