botany

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission is treating the most recent sighting of a non-native northern snakehead in Pennsylvania as...

The I Love New York Fall Foliage Report shows much of Cattaraugus County at the midpoint of peak colors this weekend. The leaves on the trees in the n...

Chris Crawford of Olean was on North Union Street in the area of the Big Lots parking lot when she saw where a kind passerby put flowers around a down...

CUBA — The 15th annual Cuba Garlic Festival is set for 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, with thousands of visitors expected an...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — “Lingering ash.” That’s what the U.S. Forest Service calls the relatively few green and white ash trees that survive the emeral...

I still remember the glowing excitement I experienced as the first day of squirrel approached way back in the 1960s. All my friends and their fathers ...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — Beekeeping expert and author Michael Bush will offer a program Oct. 26 at Gunzburger Auditorium, 1 North Main St. Recent data from ...

In this day and age of IT, in which a business or home can have all kinds of security that can turn things on and off and give alerts, it’s hard to be...

SALAMANCA — A local Seneca artisan has been working on her craft to keep the art of traditional Seneca basket making alive. But with the ash tree on t...

BELMONT — The plant disease responsible for the Irish Potato Famine has been found on Allegany County produce. The Cornell Cooperative Extension of Al...

ITHACA — Dale Ila Riggs knew the pests were coming for her berries. It was summer 2012, and Riggs watched as the invasive spotted wing Drosophila, a t...

Residents of “God’s Country” — Potter County, Pa., accept that timber rattlesnakes can be in their woods, particularly in the more southern area of th...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued its annual summer request for participation in the Division of Lands and Forests’ A...

VERSAILLES — Tucked away in Versailles Cemetery in the northwest corner of Cattaraugus County is a most unusual gravestone. It marks the graves of Hir...

QUAKER RUN — The Allegany State Park Historical Society will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Quaker Lake Bathhouse Conference Room. The guest speaker i...

BRADFORD, Pa. — When Sally Costik approached Bradford Landmark Society’s board a number of years ago about hosting a women’s workshop at Crook Farm in...

Remember giant hogweed, the vile invasive plant species that made a lot of news in New York state a few years ago? Well, the state Department of Envir...

If you’ve ever been a pet parent you know animals love to explore and taste just about everything in their path. Unfortunately, there are things at ho...