Hackberry emperor butterflies take flight at the entrance to the Roth Trailhead at the University of Kansas Field Station. A crowd slowed traffic one recent morning on a road north of Lawrence, but it ...

If you live in the southern parts of the country, you might have long admired the majestic hackberry tree (Celtis occidentalis) but discovered it won't really grow in your region, especially if you ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — The Springfield-Greene County Park Board says a landmark of Jordan Valley Park was lost to the severe storms that hit Springfield on Tuesday. The Horton Alexander Hackberry tree — ...

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 ...

The hackberrys, however, were not the first species to be planted on the quad after the construction of Moon Library and Illick Hall in 1968, according to Dr. Ralph D. Nyland, Distinguished Service ...

I often write about how flowers aren’t the only ornamental characteristic by which we should judge the aesthetic value of ...

Q: The wind has caused a crack in a 4-inch branch on a hackberry tree that extends over our driveway. Can a limb like that be bound or screwed back together? A: Without a photo I’m not coming near ...

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 ...

Rebecca Koop pets her dog Zoe after taking a moment to assess damage to her raku kiln. Strong winds felled 45-foot-tall hackberry tree in the yard behind her pottery studio in the Scarritt Renaissance ...

cut down my tree – never, ever! My land had “no trespassing signs.” I attended a township meeting with my surveyor and pleaded that the township not cut my tree. I would expect any reasonable official ...

What Does a Hackberry Emperor Look Like? What type of butterfly is this? asks reader Andrea Rickard of Helena, Ohio. Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman say, “This is a good view of the intricate pattern on the ...