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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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 around your house. The black-and-red or orange insects are a frequent ...

Q I was cleaning out a flower bed around my maple tree and the leaves and weeds were just crawling with some kind of red bug, hundreds of them. What are they? Are they doing anything to my plants or ...

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 ...

The box elder tree had plans for spring. Sometime in late summer, when I couldn't see the twigs for the leaves, the tree formed buds for next year's leaves. This year's leaves must have felt slighted, ...