Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In backyards across Des Moines, a quiet battle is unfolding between trees and the creatures determined to eat them out of house ...

When the Source opened last summer in a redeveloped nineteenth-century foundry not far from the National Western Complex, the space was electric, crackling with the unexpected juxtaposition of food, ...

One of the most important parts of any forest ecosystem or ecology is the mighty oak tree. It is often a huge sprawling tree with thick heavy branches, large dark green leaves and a trunk covered with ...

Most oak tree insects in the larval stage just sit there in oak branches. They have glycerine, a kind of antifreeze that allows them to survive even the harshest winters. In the fall acorns, the seed ...

One early March day, I went to pay my respects to the sycamores and oaks of Bidwell Park before their winter-bare branches became covered in leaves. Those arboreal monarchs feature some outstanding ...