First News sat down with Chevy Motswaledi, the Mahoning County OSU extension educator for agriculture and natural resources, ...

Don’t Miss The five-mile Macleay Park Trail to Pittock Mansion, the park’s most popular trail. It has everything, including ...

With wispy tufts that drape trees like haunted-house cobwebs, old man’s beard lichen can be an unexpected sight in northern ...

The invasive insects have started laying eggs to hatch in 2026. Now is the time to kill their egg masses, experts say. Here's ...

Dwarf mistletoe, a parasitic plant, means healthy-looking trees are not always what they seem. The infection causes dense ...

Settle in with columnist Janell Shah as she reflects on October’s calm and the quiet persistence of lichens across the valley ...

OSTEEN, Fla. — In a trend on social media, people are showing off the pet monkeys they own, often to generate revenue for their animals. Owners are often forced to give up their monkeys because they ...

Your boxwood might be attracting invasive and harmful pests like the boxwood leafminer, boxwood psyllids, boxwood mites, and ...

Irish moss and reindeer moss — are actually lichen, which is a symbiotic (each species giving and benefitting) structure made ...