A rare seed bug from the Mediterranean region was intercepted by Customs officials at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. The bug, Orsillus maculatus, feeds on cypress seeds and can carry a ...

While most of my new conifer-crazy friends were wine tasting at , my travelling partner Ann Murphy (who writes the ) and I were taking in the gardens. To rest our feet before we started our stroll, we ...

While terrifying for the thousands of tourists caught up in the inferno on Rhodes, wildfires are entirely natural and Mediterranean conifer forests in particular depend on them to regenerate their ...