Dr. Amy Baird, Professor of Biology at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), and her colleagues are seeking to change the attitude of biologists toward the meaning of taxonomic categories above ...
When most people think of ducks, they probably think of birds that quack and live on water. Well, most ducks don’t quack and some nest in trees! Let’s take a close look at two of our local tree ...
Research linking climate, conifer seed production, and siskin irruptions could provide an early warning system for dangerous ...
The Weeping Japanese Cherry, sometimes called the Higan Cherry, is interspersed between the Yoshino, Akebono, and Kwanzan cherry trees. The flowers of the Weeping Cherry vary, blossoming as single or ...
The Queensland Umbrella Tree is named for the state of Queensland in Australia, where it is native, but it has been spread to ...
While native insects—even those we don’t love such as mosquitoes, biting flies, and ants have roles to play in our eco-system, invasive insects are a different story. These are species that have ...
The city of Kearney in Nebraska is famous for being an annual migratory stop for approximately 500,000 sandhill cranes from ...
During an October solar eclipse in 2022, a team of scientists traveled to the Dolomites, a forested mountain range in Italy, to study spruce trees. While the rest of the world was worried about buying ...
Trees can be identified in winter by observing their needles, bark, branching patterns, and buds. Distinctive bark, such as the smooth gray bark of a beech or the peeling white bark of a paper birch, ...
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