When you look up into the bare branches of some oak trees at this time of year, you can see ball-shaped growths hanging there, looking almost like nature’s Christmas ornaments. These are galls. A gall ...

Plenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky insects make the tree do all the work. “What nerve!” you might say. What … gall! And you’d be right. Oak galls are caused ...

Q.: I have six 90-foot tall oaks in my yard. As the leaves fell, I see that many are covered with tiny button-shaped things. It seems worse with the white oak rather than the red oak. Earlier in the ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (June 30, 2015) – Leaf damage has been confirmed in clusters of white oak trees in north and central Arkansas areas due to Jumping Oak Gall, or small plant growths caused by tiny, ...

We have had numerous calls and samples about funny looking "bumps" on the leaves of oak trees. These growths are known as galls, and alarming as they may seem, they do not injure the plant. Galls are ...

A young boy's backyard discovery revealed a surprising connection. Wasps trick ants into moving oak galls, similar to how ...

Plenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky insects make the tree do all the work. “What nerve!” you might say. What … gall! And you’d be right. Oak galls are caused ...

DEAR JOAN: There has been much discussion on Nextdoor about oak galls lately, mostly about how the galls are harmless to the tree and that they’re quite prevalent this year on oak trees around ...

This past winter was above-average in temperature. Rarely, if at all, did we have any of those bone-chilling days or nights. As a result of the mild winter, people were asking if we would see more ...

When you look up into the bare branches of some oak trees at this time of year, you can see ball-shaped growths hanging there, looking almost like nature’s Christmas ornaments. These are galls. A gall ...