Often feared, but fascinating up close — the European hornet calmly drinks sweet oak sap. Discover this peaceful side of a powerful forest insect, captured in detail among bark and sunlight.

If your ash tree’s canopy is thinning, bark is flaking off in patches, or woodpeckers are suddenly interested in your trunk, ...

The damage is invisible at first, but it doesn’t take long for the leaves to wither, the trunks to weaken, the once-vibrant ...