Summer time bass fishing is something everyone loves! In this video, I use my favorite lures for summer pond hopping. The Googan Baits Bandito Bug is a staple in my tackle box all year round! I also ...

In the Blackberry-keyboard-based project lineage story last week, I covered how a series of open-source projects turned into Beepy, a cool Linux PDA with a lively community. To me, it’s yet a… ...

The waste products that they produce can encourage mold growth. Scale insects can weaken trees and make them more vulnerable to secondary disease and more sensitive to changes in their environment.

Two Illinois natives helped preserve an old general store in Hackberry, Arizona. We spent a rainy day there — and tried not to wake the mayor as he slept on a the couch.

More than 80% of plants rely on pollinators for fertilization and reproduction (via PennState's Centre for Pollinator Research). But with urbanization eating into their habitat, non-native plants and ...

Hackberry has a 1-percent size change in width (or tangentially) for flatsawn lumber for each 3.4 percent MC change and 1 percent thickness change (radially) for a 6 percent MC change.

Health risks of water bug bites Giant water bugs can do some damage if they bite you. “The most significant risk is the bite itself,” Pace says.

View detailed hour-by-hour weather forecast for Hackberry, LA on April 21, 2025. Track temperature, precipitation, dew point, humidity, wind and more with accurate hourly predictions from WeatherBug.

Bugs are crustaceans, and now experts can begin to wonder how that came to be. Editors’ note, April 10, 2025: A previous version misidentified the class known as “horseshoe shrimp”; they are ...

Insects and Diseases of Hackberry Brett_Hondow / Getty Images Pests: One common insect on the tree causes hackberry nipple gall. A pouch or gall forms on the lower leaf surface in response to feeding.

Besides the hackberry drupes and the insects buzzing in my pollinator garden, just in our small yard alone there are also cedar and dogwood drupes, acorns and passionfruit, maple and redbud and ...