Moorhead - The box elder may be the Rodney Dangerfield of the tree world. Dismissed for its irregular form, weak wood and association with box elder bugs, the lowly tree gets no respect. But the ...

I should have known someone would want to know how to tell the gender of a female box elder tree: Hey, Answer Man! I was traveling south on U.S. 52 today and I noticed there's no longer an Apache Mall ...

On a warm day in autumn, you may get some unwelcome guests: box elder bugs. “They can be a real nuisance,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant information specialist at The Morton Arboretum. These insects often ...

Before there were stinkbugs to disturb our domestic bliss, we had the box elder bug (Boisea trivittata). The box elder bug is a native species, unlike the brown marmorated stink bug, which emigrated ...

Q I was cleaning out a flower bed around my maple tree and the leaves and weeds were just crawling with some kind of red bug, hundreds of them. What are they? Are they doing anything to my plants or ...

GARRISON, N.D. (AP) - Soon, in North Dakota, the sap will start rising in the trees as they awaken from their long winter dormancy. Chad Trautman plans to divert some of that sap - a sugary liquid ...

PORTSMOUTH — The city has a new tree to talk about. On Friday, an American elm was dedicated to the Marconi family at Strawbery Banke. It replaces a 52-year-old box elder tree that succumbed to an ...

The brittle leaves of our scarce prairie hardwood trees dropped months ago, so what are all the brown clusters hanging from the limbs of box elders? They’re seedpods, known as samaras, and they’re ...

Dear Jerry: I have a problem with box elder bugs this year. I do not have a box elder tree and don’t remember having this problem before, but they are coming in like crazy. I know my house needs to be ...

If you were a tree what kind of tree would you be? It’s a silly question best asked in a freshman philosophy class or during an other-worldly job interview. The question — for reasons my ...