Beginning this coming week in Greater Columbus, we should start to see the full bloom of one of the most widely planted flowering trees, the Callery pear. The billowy white flowers of this popular and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – As warm weather returns, so does a distinctive springtime odor that many liken to rotting fish. The overwhelming aroma is the result of an invasive species that is illegal to ...

Callery pear trees line a street in Kansas City, Missouri. This species, popular for its flowers, is a healthy part of nature in its native Asia. But it becomes highly invasive in North America, ...

ST. LOUIS — A foul fish-smelling odor has descended on the St. Louis region, and local fish fries aren't to blame. Countless Bradford pear, or Callery pear, trees across the area have started to bud, ...

Those white-flowering trees you see along the highways and in neighborhoods throughout Central Indiana might seem like a welcome harbinger of spring. They actually represent a threat similar to one ...

This past week I was riding to Columbus with a friend who gave me a chance to get a lens that will help with my closeups. What I saw through the van window was all of these white-flowered trees in ...

Matt Dear, a natural resource technician for Johnson County Park and Recreation District, kills an ornamental pear tree on park property. At least three states have banned these trees outright, and ...

As warm weather returns to Kansas, so does a distinctive springtime odor that many liken to rotting fish. The overwhelming aroma is the result of an invasive species. The Callery pear tree, which ...

Callery pear trees made their debut in the United States in 1908 at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Jamaica Plain. Now the species is facing a possible ban in Massachusetts. “They form ...

Rows of uniform holes, either horizontal (most commonly) or vertical, might look like an insect attack, but they are more likely caused by a bird with an unusual name – the yellow-bellied sapsucker ...