Have you looked up at your live oak leaves recently? If not, you might be surprised to see clusters of fuzzy yellow-beige balls on the underside of some of those leaves. They are live oak leaf galls ...

Here and there and mostly under oaks in Central Florida is what looks like an invasion of miniature pompoms. They are one of nature’s crazy-but-true tricks of reproduction by bugs nearly too tiny to ...

Dear Dr. Dirt: We have a lot of small, round, brown and fuzzy balls falling onto our driveway. I believe they are coming off a pin oak tree. Can you tell us what they are? — Robert, Noblesville Dear ...