Over the last few weeks, I have seen several trees in south Marion County that were declining quickly, and likely dying with no recourse available. These trees often start with branches showing ...

Yellow-bellied sapsucker is a disparaging name for a little woodpecker. Yellow connotes cowardice, while sapsucker bespeaks a chump. The bird is merely a woodpecker that clings against a tree trunk at ...

“And you tell him if he don’t show up himself, he ain’t nothing but a yellow-bellied sapsucking coward.”–Denzel Washington as Sam Chisolm in the 2016 remake of "The Magnificent Seven" Arguably our ...

There have been many calls this month to the Duval County Extension Office describing a very unusual pattern of shallow pencil sized holes mysteriously appearing on the trunks of trees all over the ...

This juvenile female yellow-bellied sapsucker definitely has a yellow belly, but she lacks the bold black and white patterns that appear on the heads of adults. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON Sign up ...

There it was, attached to the siding of Mae Whalen's northeast Rochester home. It looked almost natural, as if it had just landed in hopes of finding some insects inside the painted redwood siding.

There have been many calls this month to the Duval County Extension Office describing a very unusual pattern of shallow pencil sized holes mysteriously appearing on the trunks of trees all over the ...