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 ...

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Like clockwork, every fall they want in. The best way to identify boxelder trees is to examine their leaves and seeds on female trees. (Nancy Downs, Colorado ...

The boxelder bug is a relatively harmless insect that’s named after its main food source — the box elder tree. They feed off of the female versions of these trees — which are the only ones that ...

Back when stink bugs (Halyomorpha halys) were first found in Pennsylvania and I heard the horror stories of home invasions, I steeled myself mentally for the inevitable in our own house. Thankfully, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Michigan sees warm fall days, boxelder bugs won't be hard to find as they cluster in the sun on walls and other warm spots ...

Spring can be an exciting time to start getting outside after a long, cold winter in North Dakota. And what better reason than if there is sweet maple syrup as an end result? While we don’t have lush ...

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 ...

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 ...