I was out with students taking pictures of tree buds as part of our citizen science Budburst project. Only two types of tree buds had opened up yet, both flowers, red maples and pussy willow. The red ...

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City Forester Gene Hyde holds the branch of an overcup oak tree on Riverfront Parkway Tuesday May 16, 2018. City workers planted the tree after an infestation began killing the city's willow oak trees ...

Nature provides for its own, and every year the warm nights of June and July result in willow fly hatches at Kentucky and Barkley lakes. The small insects are known by several names, including ...