Young pollinating wasps use oak galls for food and protection. Bats use narrow spaces under tree bark as shelter during the day. Birds build nests in holes and branches to raise young. Acorns are ...

The crown branches outward in a cone shape during growth and rounds out when it reaches maturity. The bark of a younger willow oak tree is often ... bright green. In autumn, they fade to the ...

The leaves of autumn, brought down by the screaming ... bear-like pawing dislodges an oak bracket fungus at the base of the tree. Meanwhile, on a low crooked branch, a tawny owl sits as still as a ...

On a warm autumn day, between 1715 and 1735, some live oak acorns thudded softly ... made their home in its expanding branches and canopy. Now the tree created enough shade to inhibit the ...

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 the result of gall wasps. Inside the galls are ...