Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaves are food factories for the tree. Powered by sunlight, the green ...

Every spring across Europe, billions of oak leafroller moth caterpillars hatch on oak branches and immediately start chewing. Their survival depends on perfect timing: the larvae must emerge just as ...

A new study suggests that oak trees attacked by caterpillars can delay leafing out the following spring. That tiny shift, ...

Oak trees have a surprising trick to fight back against hungry caterpillars: they simply wait. When trees are heavily ...