Skeleton weed is a serious problem which can significantly reduce grain crop yields. Together with the Department of Primary ...

Taking a look at the waste ground on the eastern edge of Liskeard ...

I did some research and found the process for producing the oak balls to be fascinating. A tiny oak gall wasp drills into a twig or leaf of the tree and places an egg inside the plant tissue. While ...

Bunun hunters gather clues to the best time for hunting from the fresh shoots of pines growing at high elevations, such as red pines and Armand pines (Pinus armandii). They believe that deer begin to ...

There is a tiny gall wasp that lays its eggs in the leaves of witch hazel. As I mentioned in my August article on oak apple galls, a gall is an abnormal growth found on a plant, caused by eating ...

What do Catwoman, Han Solo, and the man who betrayed Julius Caesar all have in common? Scientists have just named a group of ...

Twenty-two new species of gall wasps have been identified and named, thanks to new research. The study nearly doubles the number of known species in this genus of wasps. Twenty-two new species of ...