Being female can be tough, even for trees. A study of the life cycle of striped maples – which can change sex from season to season – has revealed that healthy trees are more likely to be male, and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract During 1986, the leaf herbivore fauna of Acer pensylvanicum in western Virginia consisted largely of leaf-chewing, generalist Lepidoptera ...

I was up in the mountains this past weekend and got to visit with one of my favorite trees — the striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum). I did some googling and it turns out striped maples are a lot of ...

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