While, to many, fall is as good a season as any other, it can be the worst for those who are prone to oak leaf itch mites. These are commonly known to feed on larvae of an oak gall midge (fly ...

Oak galls are popping up everywhere this fall! They're the tiny, fuzzy yellow or brown balls on oak leaves and branches. You could spot one or two, then dozens around the same tree. Oak galls are ...

After a wasp lays eggs on a leaf, the tree ... oak gall is pinkish-brown on the outside and yellowish, soft and moist on the inside, acording to a Texas A&M extension publications report. By late ...

After picking out a likely spot either on or in the oak’s leaves ... the gall may resemble a berry or larger fruit. Great numbers of galls cluster on the branches of the host tree, giving ...

During that time, a female moth deposits up to 500 eggs, usually in a cluster on the underside of an oak leaf ... maple trees. The good news about the orange-striped oakworm and other fall ...

This is the conflict between the oak tree and the oak gall. An oak gall wasp lays its eggs on the oak tree leaves and then infestation spreads. The spread could kill an oak tree but it can be ...

Earlier this month my colleague, LyAnn Graff, brought in an interesting looking fuzz ball surrounding a thin leafy branch of a burr oak tree. It was about ... I figured it must be an oak gall of some ...