What looked like a few seeds beside an ant nest in a backyard turned out to be something stranger, and far more consequential ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Oak galls are popping up everywhere this fall! They're the tiny, fuzzy yellow or brown balls on oak leaves and branches. You could spot one or two, then dozens around the same ...

ST. LOUIS – A giant force of nature is vulnerable to a minuscule wasp, capable of destroying it. This is the conflict between the oak tree and the oak gall. An oak gall wasp lays its eggs on the oak ...

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 ...

Chemical analysis provided a key clue.

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 ...

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, ...

CUTLINES - Q: My pin oak tree has lumpy growth on the limbs that someone said were galls. What should I do about this? I don't want to lose my tree. C. B. TulsaA: Oak tree galls come in many forms, ...

Fuzzy orange galls like this are common on oak leaves. They are caused by the leaf's reaction to a tiny wasp egg. Credit: Courtesy of Terri Umble This story was originally published in September 2020.

Scientists at Rice University recently made a discovery when studying oak trees that is the first of its kind. They discovered a love triangle of sorts between a wasp, an oak tree and a vine. The bad ...

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 ...