How far would leaf-eating insects go to dine on their favorite food? Perhaps the other side of the world, according to researchers at Penn State who found insect damage on fossil leaves from South ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sawfly larva. You may notice a pine sawfly on your pine trees this spring or summer. The pesky creatures are more disturbance ...

Light pollution disrupts circadian rhythms and ecosystems worldwide—but for plants, dependent on light for photosynthesis, its effects could be profound. Now scientists writing in Frontiers in Plant ...

Plants that grow under the glare of artificial lighting like streetlights have tougher leaves that insects find hard to eat, new research has found. This finding suggests that artificial light at ...

Welcome to our tree column, “Ask your local arborist.” Each month, arborists from the Davey Tree Expert Company in Menlo Park discuss a tree-related topic from general care and planting tips to how ...

The later weeks of July are usually when the activity of damaging insects seems to reach its peak.