They release pheromones to attract more individuals to the host tree.
Lacking enough nutrition and light, the host tree eventually dies.
As such, each sapling is usually grown next to four or five host trees.
Many had been shattered against the trunks of their host trees.
He often couldn't tell where the host tree left off and the parasitic vines began.
This aphid is found in Europe wherever its host trees grow.
The host trees die, but the strangler fig goes on living for hundreds of years.
The type of host tree on which the mistletoe plant grows.
Mistletoe products may be named according to the type of host tree on which the plant grows.
Another 300 potential host trees will have to be cut, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Agriculture said.