The most stunning feature of the river birch is bark that peels back in thin layers (also known as exfoliates) to reveal a ...

Newborn caterpillars protect leaf-tip homes with buzzing and drumming signals. These vibrations scare off rivals and help avoid fights.

Learning to spot just a few of our most common trees, like the english oak, silver birch, or white willow, is great start. Here are the leaves of an english oak, for example… Image caption ...

The two-lined hooktip moth lays its eggs in even rows on twigs and leaves of birch and alder trees. When the eggs hatch, almost inscrutably small larvae emerge, some as short as half a millimeter. But ...

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them ... A tree that offers great curb appeal is the river birch (Betula nigra or water birch) which is native to the eastern and ...

The study focused on silver birch trees and found that species richness and competitive pressure for light in the immediate vicinity influenced the timing of spring leaf burst, while water ...