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 ...

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 ...