However since the early 1990s, Gypsy moth infestations have eroded the dominance of oak forests.

Oaks are used as food plants by the larvae of Lepidoptera ( butterfly and moth ) species such as the Gypsy Moth, Lymantria dispar, which can defoliate oak and other broadleaved tree species in North America.

Recently, a new infestation of a hazardous moth has effected the population of oak trees in London.

The most serious defoliating insects that attack Chinkapin oak are the gypsy moth ( Lymantria dispar ), the orangestriped oakworm ( Anisota senatoria ), and the variable oakleaf caterpillar ( Heterocampa manteo ).

During the spring of 2007, a large swath of oak and other hardwood trees were defoliated by the Gypsy moth caterpillar.

Much of the trail in Pennsylvania was closed in the 1980s because a gypsy moth onslaught had killed much of the surrounding oak forest.

Other defoliators that attack black oak and may occasionally be epidemic are the variable oak leaf caterpillar ( Heterocampa manteo ), the orange striped oakworm ( Anisota senatoria ), and the brown tail moth ( Euproctis chrysorrhoea ).

), filbertworm ( Melissopus latiferreanus ), and acorn moth ( Valentinia glandulel1a ) damage black oak acorns.

In British Columbia, the Garry oak can be infested by three nonnative insects: the jumping gall wasp Neuroterus saltatorius, the oak leaf phylloxeran, and the gypsy moth.

* Bucculatrix zophopasta leaf-mining moth, sole larval food plant is oak

Dr. Frank Gouin, Professor Emeritus of Horticulture at the University of Maryland, College Park, impressed both by the age and size of the tree, as well as its unusual resistance to oak wilt fungus and the gypsy moth, led a successful effort to clone the Wye Oak.

The Oak Processionary ( Thaumetopoea processionea ) is a moth whose caterpillars are pests in oak forests and pose a health hazard because of their poisonous setae ( hairs ), which may cause skin irritation and asthma.

An emergency amendment came into force on 31 March 2008, which added the moth to the list of pests in The Plant Health ( Forestry ) Order 2005, and requires all oak trees coming into the UK from the rest of Europe to have Plant Passports.

The ecoregion has forests of Turkish Pine ( Pinus brutia ), oak forests and woodlands, and maquis shrubland of Turkish Pine and evergreen sclerophyllous trees and shrubs, including Olive ( Olea europaea ), Strawberry Tree ( Arbutus unedo ), Arbutus andrachne, Kermes Oak ( Quercus coccifera ), and Bay Laurel ( Laurus nobilis ).

American white oak has been a proven staple over red oak due to its tighter grain structure.

Legend has it that it was here in 1558, while sitting under an oak tree in the Park, that she learned that she had become Queen following the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I.

Folklore has it that the oak construction for York Minster provided the sawdust for smoking the ham.

The clock still operates and like his previous clocks has a wooden movement, made of oak and lignum vitae.

When Merlot has spent significant time in oak, the wine may show notes of caramel, chocolate, coconut, coffee bean, dill weed, mocha, molasses, smoke, vanilla and walnut.

Covered rather extensively by mixed pine and oak forest, it has a much lower population density than much of the rest of the state.

This is a member of a species and it has much in common with other oak trees, past, present and future.

John Clark has been awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star with an oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star with Valor devices with 3 oak leaf clusters, three Purple Hearts and four Intelligence Stars.

Whisky that has been aged in oak barrels gets a number of components from the wood.

Dendrochronology has become important to art historians in the dating of panel paintings, and can also provide information as to the source of the panel — many Early Netherlandish paintings have turned out to be painted on panels of " Baltic oak " shipped from the Vistula region via ports of the Hanseatic League.

In the east wing is the long gallery which has oak panelling, a chimney-piece and a panelled ceiling.

Frequent hybridization among oaks has consequences for oak populations around the world ; most notably, hybridization has produced large populations of hybrids with copious amounts of introgression, and the evolution of new species.

A new and as yet little understood disease of mature oaks, Acute oak decline, has been reported in parts of the UK since 2009.

The exception to livestock and oak toxicity is the domestic pig, which may be fed entirely on acorns in the right conditions, and has traditionally been pastured in oak woodlands ( such as the Spanish dehesa and the English system of pannage ) for hundreds of years.

The oak is a common symbol of strength and endurance and has been chosen as the national tree of many countries.

* In the United States, brandy that has been produced in some way other than using grape wine must be labelled with a clarifying description of the type of brandy production ( e. g., " peach brandy ", " fruit brandy ", " dried fruit brandy ", or " pomace brandy "), and brandy that has not been aged in oak for at least two years must be labelled as " immature ".

The products of oak trees were once an important food for swine and a farmstead may have been named for such produce.

Constructed of Adriatic oak, Tonnant had been built in 1792 and Franklin and Spartiate were less than a year old.

Alternatively, domino sets have been made from many different natural materials: stone ( e. g., marble, granite or soapstone ); other hardwoods ( e. g., ash, oak, redwood and cedar ); metals ( e. g., brass or pewter ); ceramic clay, or even frosted glass or crystal.

The work also describes traditional religious practices at the oak of Mamre as though they were still happening, while they are known to have been suppressed soon after 325, when a church was built on the site.

The oak tree is between 800 and 1, 000 years old and, since the Victorian era, its massive limbs have been partially supported by an elaborate system of scaffolding.

While the house had long been claimed to have been built circa 1640 ( and being the oldest wood-framed house in North America ), core samples of wood taken from a summer beam confirmed the wood was from an oak tree felled in 1637-8.

An oak in Raudone under which Gediminas is reputed to have been mortally wounded.

Numerous hypotheses have been proposed to explain how oak species are able to remain morphologically and ecologically distinct with such high levels of gene flow, but the phenomenon is still largely a mystery to botanists.

Wide, quarter-sawn boards of oak have been prized since the Middle Ages for use in interior paneling of prestigious buildings such as the debating chamber of the House of Commons in London, and in the construction of fine furniture.

For example, over the past 200 years, large areas of oak forest in the highlands of Mexico, Central America and the northern Andes have been cleared for coffee plantations and cattle ranching.

In a recent survey, 78 wild oak species have been identified as being in danger of extinction, from a global total of over 500 species.

Essentially any type of grain can be used to make whiskey, and the practice of aging whiskey ( and even charring the barrels ) for better flavor had also been known in Europe for centuries, so the use of the local American corn for the mash and oak for the barrels was simply a logical combination of the materials at hand for the European settlers in America.

The place name Dąbrowa, is derived from the Polish word dąb ( oak ), and denotes an oak grove, as the territory of the original village is believed to have been covered by oak forests back in the early days of its existence.