Nut trees make great additions to your yard - and your kitchen - but which are worth growing, and which should you avoid? Let ...

Red wood ants often build nests in and around rotting tree trunks. At the University of Konstanz in Germany, Arndt photographed a red wood ant species known as Formica rufa, which behaves ...

There are over a dozen species of flicker, living in various parts of the Americas. The species we see here is call the northern flicker. This species occurs over most of North America, plus Central ...

One frustrated gardener has landscape fabric around trees — and as they've found out, there are multiple issues with it.

Deadly fire ants have breached the Sunshine Coast biosecurity zone, with six nests found at a building site, prompting calls for more federal funding to thwart the pests’ march across the state.

Where their activity has loosened plants, firm the plants back into the soil and water well. Good watering tends to discourage ants, as they prefer dry conditions. Ant nests (hills) can be broken up ...

That trail of tiny footprints, indiscernible to the naked eye, is remarkably effective at protecting the tree from pathogens and pests. That makes ants, in the eyes of Ida Cecilie Jensen, a legion of ...

Ice cores work similar to rings in tree trunks – they accumulate periodically, but are harder to analyse. When snow converts to ice, it traps air in between as bubbles, which can then be studied ...

Trees require minimal care, especially if they are free-standing and get enough sunshine. However, there stands only one foe to these life-giving trees– pests. Squirrels, rats, raccoons, and many ...

The ant scurries along on six nimble legs. It catches up to its peers, a line of antennaed bugs roaming the winding surface of a tree, perpetually hunting for food. While doing so, each ...