Answer: That orange growth is lichen, not a rust pathogen. Lichen do not harm the tree or shrub in any way. They tend to grow only on that outer bark and stay there, not growing deeper into live ...

March in the Northland is a month of great changes and a plethora of nature happenings. It is another month when the weather seems to get the most attention. In the beginning, it is still winter; cold ...

As the early morning sunlight lasers over the horizon, autumn tumbles in amid flurries of fluttering leaves, glowing golden, orange-y, and scarlet. Fall has arrived, yet the weather remains quite warm ...

The first day of spring has come and gone, but, while hiking with friends in the mountains in Maine this past weekend we encountered enough snow and ice to realize spring doesn’t always arrive on its ...

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

Q: I have planted quite a few sugar maples on my property. I am concerned that some of them have a disease. They have a kind of gray scaly patches growing on the trunks were the branches join in. If I ...

Two temperate foliose lichen species, Parmelia sulcata and Physcia adscendens, were grown outdoors on plastic cover slips to characterize development and study the environmental conditions suitable ...

Dr. Gothamie Weerakoon who delivered the invitee address at the annual conference of the British Lichen Society , tells Kumudini Hettiarachchi that her love for nature began at an early age vital ...

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