Hackberry emperor butterflies take flight at the entrance to the Roth Trailhead at the University of Kansas Field Station. A crowd slowed traffic one recent morning on a road north of Lawrence, but it ...

Winter must be here early, because white fluffy insects are snowing down on Mississippi right now. Actually, a bumper crop of ...

If you’ve noticed tiny white specks floating through the air, or sticking to your car, clothes, or porch — you’re not alone. It is probably what experts are calling Hackberry Woolly Aphids.

Ms. Renkl is a contributing Opinion writer who reports from Nashville on flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South. Hackberries are native to Alabama, where I grew up, but I was a child ...

Q: The wind has caused a crack in a 4-inch branch on a hackberry tree that extends over our driveway. Can a limb like that be bound or screwed back together? A: Without a photo I’m not coming near ...

Aphids can produce large amounts of sticky honeydew. The tiny droplets fall on leaves and anything below, such as bedding plants, outdoor decks, furniture, toys, sidewalks, driveways and automobiles.

Hackberry psyllids are responsible for creating nibble galls on the leaves of hackberry trees. Courtesy Johnson County Extension With temperatures in the KC metro area so variable this fall season, ...

cut down my tree – never, ever! My land had “no trespassing signs.” I attended a township meeting with my surveyor and pleaded that the township not cut my tree. I would expect any reasonable official ...

DEAR NEIL: We have a cluster of hackberry trees that shade our house and patio (see photos). They were here when the house was built eight years ago. A small one has gone from green to dead in just a ...

Rebecca Koop pets her dog Zoe after taking a moment to assess damage to her raku kiln. Strong winds felled 45-foot-tall hackberry tree in the yard behind her pottery studio in the Scarritt Renaissance ...