Blue tits, a familiar garden bird in the U.K., could be the salvation of our imperiled conker trees (horse-chestnut trees), which are under severe attack by a tiny non-native moth that has spread from ...

Parasitic "hitchhiking" moths, which infect and destroy the leaves of conker trees, are moving north and could soon invade Scotland. The horse chestnut leaf-mining moth, which originates in the ...

The caterpillars of the moth 'tunnel' through the leaves of conker trees, causing them to turn brown and autumnal in appearance, even in the height of summer. In 2010 thousands of 'citizen scientists' ...

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CONKER trees are under threat because of an alien invader that is winning an insect war in England. In the past ten years, the horse chestnut leaf-mining moth has spread from London into almost the ...

HUNDREDS of horse chestnut trees across Oxfordshire are under threat in what looks to be the worst case of tree blight since Dutch elm disease 30 years ago. The trees have been hit by the arrival in ...

AN HISTORIC conker tree which has the ashes of a former vicar and two of his grandchildren buried under it is to be felled because it is diseased. The huge horse chestnut, outside Accrington's Christ ...

THE county’s conker trees are under threat from an alien insect invader, a Wallingford scientist has warned. In the past 10 years, the horse chestnut leaf-mining moth has spread from London into ...

A row is raging in Norwich after the city council threatened to fell seven horse chestnut trees because of the risk posed by their conkers. The conkers are a danger to pedestrians, who could slip on ...

Sally Clarke, headteacher of Bardsey Primary School near Leeds, with some of her pupils in front of the only conker tree on the grounds, which was cut down by an unknown vandal (Picture: SWNS) A group ...

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