Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's that time of the season if you have a silver maple tree in your yard or in the neighborhood. The seeds are falling in great ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Winged seeds called samaras grow on maple trees. These are seeds from the Japanese maple, _Acer palmatum_. AlessandroZocc/iStock ...

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 ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- Whirligigs? Helicopter seeds? Or perhaps the scientific name – samaras -- for the silver maple seeds flying in yards this spring. Whatever you call them, some WCCO-TV viewers 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 ...

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 their ...

John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time for ...

There were helicopters everywhere! It was snowing helicopters in my garden and lawn last weekend! AAACCCCKKKK! These helicopters were the fruits of the silver maple trees and were abundant. Many ...

ERIE COUNTY (W.K.B.W.) — Experts say the maple trees across Western New York are in a mast year this year, meaning they are producing a massive amount of "helicopter" seeds. "In a perfect world, the ...