Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 67, No. 7 (July 2013), pp. 1067-1075 (9 pages) The food perishability hypothesis reasons that the perishability of nondormant acorns through rapid germination ...

When pericarps were intact, water was absorbed by Nuttall, pin, cherrybark, and northern red oak acorns, mainly through the vascular openings of the cup scar. Uptake through the pericarp was greater ...

Rat-a-tat-tat. Showers of acorns hit the ground and tapped our heads as my husband and I hiked the Appalachian Trail. Thousands of acorns strewn across the path atop multi-colored leaves made for ...

You’ve likely seen a squirrel dashing around with an oak tree acorn in its mouth. It may be about to eat lunch, or it may be stowing acorns in its pantry for later meals. But where, exactly, are ...

Q. We planted a 10-foot-tall red oak in 1998. We love the fall color it gives us. This year it is producing a large crop of acorns. We would like to plant some acorns on our property in the Texas Hill ...

Today’s column is a reminder to treat sprouting acorns as weeds and remove the oak seedlings from the garden as soon as possible. If every acorn that fell this winter wasn’t gathered up, a veritable ...

If you have a dog, you should be extra diligent right now about examining its fur for ticks. My wife, who works next to a park resplendent with mature oak trees, brought attention to the fact that ...

More than a few inquiries to our Master Gardener Help Desk have asked why there appears to be so many acorns this year compared with last year. Turns out, this phenomenon is not limited to this year, ...

Seems the nuts are out in droves lately. Acorns are piling up in Florida parking lots, sidewalks, lawns and streets as oak trees drop way more nuts than voracious squirrels, raccoons and wild hogs can ...