If you’re wondering whether you should inspect your fir for a Christmas tree worm this holiday season, you don’t have to worry. During the holiday season, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

During the holiday season, even the ocean gets in the spirit! The Christmas tree worm (Spirobranchus giganteus) is a type of polychaete, a group of segmented worms mostly found in the ocean. It lives ...

In this photo taken Sunday Jan. 16, 2013, Mpokuhle Ncube finds a mopane worm in a tree in Gwanda, Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe as well as most parts of southern Africa, mopane worms are a staple part of the ...

Q. I have a clump birch that was planted in 1991. It has grown beautifully until this year. Long "seed worms" developed on two trunks, then shriveled up and now there are dead leaves on some of the ...

Despite their name, Christmas tree worms aren’t going to eat up fir and pine trees often used during the holiday season, scientists say. The creatures live in the ocean. Matt Hardy via Unsplash If you ...