Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Galls are abnormal growths on a part of the plant. They can be caused by bacteria, insects, mites and fungi. They can be on any ...

It can be unnerving to find that the leaves of an oak or hackberry tree are as bumpy as a rock-covered seashore in late summer. Other trees’ leaves may break out in acne-like red spots or sport ...

Q.: I have six 90-foot tall oaks in my yard. As the leaves fell, I see that many are covered with tiny button-shaped things. It seems worse with the white oak rather than the red oak. Earlier in the ...

Q: I noticed little fuzzy balls attached to some fallen oak leaves. Also, I keep picking up brown marble-size balls in the yard. They are not acorns. Do you know what they are? A: Odds are what's ...

Plants often develop bumps or other odd growths that might remind one of a science fiction movie, but there’s no need be alarmed. These unusual appearing growths are called galls and are usually more ...

When you look up into the bare branches of some oak trees at this time of year, you can see ball-shaped growths hanging there, looking almost like nature’s Christmas ornaments. These are galls. A gall ...

Plenty of animals build their homes in oak trees. But some very teeny, tricky insects make the tree do all the work. “What nerve!” you might say. What … gall! And you’d be right. Oak galls are caused ...

DEAR JOAN: There has been much discussion on Nextdoor about oak galls lately, mostly about how the galls are harmless to the tree and that they’re quite prevalent this year on oak trees around ...

Galls are abnormal growths on a part of the plant. They can be caused by bacteria, insects, mites and fungi. They can be on any part of a plant and are the overgrowth of plant tissue in response to ...