The fall brings many webs to our Lowcountry trees. The webs are for protection against birds and other insects. Some are bad for the tree; some are good for the tree and some are just Halloween ...

I wiped my glasses and glanced nervously through the trees. Fresh bear prints were climbing from the creek toward the hillcrest. I fumbled through the back of my vest and found my bear spray. I pulled ...

No, they are not “army worms”. Those conspicuous white masses of webby material that are seen in the forks of branches of trees are created by the eastern tent caterpillar. Populations of this insect ...

A new book, The Hidden Life of Trees, claims that trees talk to one another. But is this really the case? The simple answer is that plants certainly exchange information with one another and other ...

Do trees actually talk to each other? And if so, how do they do it? Just over 20 years ago, ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered that trees do communicate with each other, and it's through a fungal ...