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GARDENER’S MAILBAG Dear Neil, my red oak is about 10 years old. Some of the leaves are starting to look distressed, so I ...

“Unlike termites, carpenter ants do not eat wood,” writes Ashley Kulhanek and Curtis Young in an OSU post on ants and dead trees. “They excavate nest tunnels from soft rotting wood with their large ...

SAN ANTONIO – Oak trees are the backbone of South Central Texas. Hardy, evergreen and beautiful, oak trees can also provide plenty of shade. But neighborhoods like Live Oak, Shavano Park ...

Although it's common for carpenter ants to nest in trees, they do so in the nonliving parts (dead limbs or the nonliving tissue in the center of the tree). Carpenter ants do not kill healthy trees.