In the past few weeks, maple trees have been dropping samaras, or more commonly referred to as “helicopter” seeds, in vibrant red and pink colors. But what’s causing the change in color?

If you live somewhere with maple trees, you've probably seen their striking helicopter seeds—made up of a seed pod attached to a delicate wing. Maple samaras' unique design and spinning movement ...

Helicopters is the fun name for maple ... In recent years, some maple trees dropped seeds in overwhelming numbers potentially due to stress from the drought. "There's a tendency to just flower ...

Seeds, samaras, helicopters: Whatever you call maple seeds ... seeds also takes some energy away from leaf production, so maple trees may have smaller leaves than they usually do this time ...

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 ...

If you live somewhere with maple trees, you’ve probably seen their striking helicopter seeds – made up of a seed pod attached to a delicate wing. Maple samaras’ unique design and spinning ...

If you live somewhere with maple trees, you’ve probably seen their striking helicopter seeds – made up of a seed pod attached to a delicate wing. Maple samaras’ unique design and spinning movement can ...