Acorns cling to the leaves of an oak tree in the uptown area of Dallas on Nov. 15. Trees in North Texas are producing a lot amount of a acorns this year due to a natural phenomenon known as "masting." ...

There are 55 species of oak trees native to the United States, 20 of them in Illinois. Other wind-pollinated species that also have mast years include walnut and hickory trees.

Well, that’s the most common thought. But, you know, there are some people that think, okay, when oak trees get really stressed, they put on a bumper crop of acorns just kind of in case they die.

Oak trees drop their acorns in the fall because it is an ideal time for their seeds to be planted. This is nature’s reminder to us that fall is landscaping season.

A single oak tree can produce nearly 10,000 acorns in a reproductive season. Most of those acorns fall to the ground during autumn and early winter, but their crop yield varies each year.

Acorn Armageddon: Why are our oak trees producing so many acorns this year? Large waves of acorns have been noted across the region this fall, and the reason is somewhat of a mystery.

Their acorns are an important source of fat and protein for squirrels, blue jays, deer, and countless other creatures. “Oak trees are the foundation of our local ecosystem,” Campbell said.

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1. Know Your Oak Tree Species Oaks typically fall into one of two major subspecies, reds and whites. Red oaks are hugely important to deer, as they produce mast more reliably and drop acorns later ...

Iowa is known as the king of corn but lately, there also appears to be a bumper crop of acorns. Anyone who’s taken a walk near oak trees has crunched across many hundreds of the dime-sized seeds ...

Some years oak trees will drop all of their acorns together at the same time. It's an evolutionary process that works to overwhelm predators by covering the ground with acorns.