This may not mean impending death to the tree, but it’s not good. The presence of holes usually means that an insect or woodpecker has taken an interest in your tree, and your tree may be in a state ...

Goetze: Our region’s woodpeckers may be praised for some things while also maligned for perceived or actual damage caused.

Sapsuckers — a close relative of woodpeckers — cause damage to trees that is often attributed to wood-boring insects.

Different species of woodpeckers consume other nutrients found inside trees, such as tree sap. Some birds will feed on fruit ...

Only then did the odd guest, a pileated woodpecker, retreat across her yard to a towering Sycamore tree. Gallucci had her ... driver's side mirror to find peck holes surrounded by cracked glass.