You may hear the neighborhood woodpeckers at work when they’re dining on spiders, grubs, or insects such as ants in the nearest dead tree. But their loud hammering is impossible to miss if they start ...

Why would a woodpecker peck something other than wood? And what would you do with a woodpecker whose pecking is perturbing, perplexing and property-damaging? It's not a "Woody Woodpecker" episode.

Since the early 2000s, the emerald ash borer has been a thorn in homeowners’ sides—or anyone with trees in their yard. These invasive insect pests cause oft-catastrophic damage to ash trees, and ...