Put plainly, ball moss isn’t pretty. While Spanish moss can look like a sophisticated adornment, greenish-gray clumps of ball ...

Oak wilt is a fungal disease that kills oak trees, spreading through the roots of the interconnected trees. We are about to enter the prime susceptibility time of year (Feb. 1 through June 30), so ...

If you spot tiny holes and piles of sawdust on your tree, bark beetles could be the culprit. Unfortunately, the solution ...

The seasons are changing from fall to winter, and one of the major changes to the environment is that the deciduous trees have lost their leaves. Evergreen trees may still have green needles, but all ...

Don't stress if you have a tree that's not looking its best in the bark department. You can save a tree with damaged bark by first assessing the type of damage. Once you know the severity, you have a ...

You may have seen the billboards around town asking that you "Bag the Ball Moss!" and wondered: What the heck is ball moss? Quite simply, it's moss that grows in a roundish, ball shape. The problem: ...

There are many myths we grow up believing, such as the link between proximity to the television and the potential for blindness. Other childhood fables are more specific to circumventing ‘bad’ luck by ...

A: It sounds like ball moss, an epiphytic bromeliad (Tillandsia recurvata) that gets moisture and nutrients from the air. Ball moss is not a true moss or a parasite, so it does not kill trees; rather, ...

We just moved to Jacksonville from up north and I want to know if Spanish moss is harming my oak trees. There is also some kind of gray-green moss growing on the trunks. Let’s talk about Spanish moss ...

Forest Service lichenologist Sarah Jovan hardly has to walk half a block from her office in downtown Portland to find the type of shaggy, green moss she used to discover the city's hidden hot spots of ...

Q: When I was outside the other day, I saw several tree branches missing big pieces of bark. They are in an area deer can’t reach. What could have caused this? Will the branches recover? A: It is ...