Jun. 10—If you think you've been seeing an invasion of helicopters this year, you're not imagining things. Southern Minnesota maple trees are producing a copious amount of seeds that flutter from ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Trees, yards and gardens are lush with all the rain recently. But some people wonder if the weather has also helped stop a pesky problem this time of year. Why are some maple trees not ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – You may have noticed something different about the maple tree seeds this year: they’re pink. In the past few weeks, maple trees have been dropping samaras, or more commonly ...

While walking to my car, I noticed that the wind was full of some sort of seeds fluttering, whirling, and spinning to the ground. My car was covered with the small reddish and yellow seeds. They ...

You may have noticed lots of those helicopter maple tree seeds filling up rain gutters or piling up on the sidewalk this year. State Forester Tivon Feeley says the large amount of seeds created a ...

Winged seeds called samaras grow on maple trees. These are seeds from the Japanese maple, _Acer palmatum_. AlessandroZocc/iStock via Getty Images Plus When wind or other disturbances detach winged ...

Barbara Lethcoe is up to her ears in maple tree seeds. But she isn’t the only one with this problem. Maple trees throughout the city have shown to be producing more seedlings this year, causing ...

Let's watch how a maple seed germinating and growing into a young tree over this 138-day time-lapse. For cold-stratification, ...

Maple tree seeds and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. Now aerospace engineering graduate students have ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Andrew Dickerson, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) When wind or other ...