Have you looked up at your live oak leaves recently? If not, you might be surprised to see clusters of fuzzy yellow-beige balls on the underside of some of those leaves. They are live oak leaf galls ...

Here and there and mostly under oaks in Central Florida is what looks like an invasion of miniature pompoms. They are one of nature’s crazy-but-true tricks of reproduction by bugs nearly too tiny to ...

They are drifting on Orlando sidewalks, turning into sodden clumps during recent rains and clinging like caterpillars to the backs of oak leaves. They appeared massively in October five years ago, and ...