To ask one, simply go to the OSU Extension website, type it in and ... as I also have a neighboring tree that drops loads of helicopter shaped twirling seeds into my yard in spring.

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?

MINNEAPOLIS — Trees, yards and ... I'd be raking up the helicopters," she said. Helicopters is the fun name for maple seeds, also known as samaras. "I would have it all cleared off the walkway ...

Maple trees throughout the city have shown to be producing more seedlings this year, causing residents to search for a solution. The seeds are often referred to as helicopter seeds because of the ...

You probably played with them for hours — the seed ... trees, slowly twirling and hovering like helicopters before falling to the ground. The mechanism that causes "helicopter seeds" to spin has ...

Staying airborne longer allowed the seeds to ride the wind farther from the parent tree, and potentially find a suitable place to take root and grow. All maples have winged “helicopter seeds” called ...

A mini helicopter modelled on flying tree ... It turns out that nature had beaten them to it. The seeds of trees such as the maple have a single-blade structure that allows them to fly far away ...

"When a tree is stressed, it focuses its energy on reproduction, and so every helicopter that you see fall actually has seeds in the, and so the reason why you see this bumper crop of production ...