Cankerworm caterpillars of the hackberry leafroller moth have infested North Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, after recent rains provided conditions amenable to their life cycle. The small ...

Answer: Your tree has galls. Hackberries are great native trees that are tolerant of many temperature, soil condition and moisture extremes. They have a few problems that are mostly cosmetic. The gall ...

NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) — I start this story with a startling fact; the hackberry tree - which comes in two varieties - is very common in North Texas. The tree is infamously found along stretches of ...

The trees in Fort Worth survived a hot and dry summer, but are now under attack from creepy crawlies. It was a long blistering summer for the trees. The last times Fort Worth saw heat this intense was ...

Q: I have a hackberry tree that has started to grow in the middle of a rose bush. The ground is dry, hard caliche. For the past three years, we have suffered through a drought. I appreciate any tree ...

A student plopped a leaf on my desk, pointed to several green lumps on its underside, and asked, “What are those green growths?” It was a stump-the-professor moment, and in this case, I was indeed ...

It can be unnerving to find that the leaves of an oak or hackberry tree are as bumpy as a rock-covered seashore in late summer. Other trees’ leaves may break out in acne-like red spots or sport ...

Have you seen something that looks like snowflakes on leaves or branches? If you take a closer look at the white floof, you’ll see that they’re actually insects. Asian woolly hackberry aphids can be ...