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 ...

In fact, certain types of woodpeckers, including the yellow-bellied sapsucker, drill holes into trees looking not for bugs but for delicious tree sap instead (just like the bird's name would suggest).

One such inquiry involved the acorn woodpecker, which is a very real ... to store dozens of acorns in meticulously carved holes in a tree. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology says that the aptly ...

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

Sap collects in the holes, which the birds then drink. Sapsucker activity can kill a tree if the holes become numerous, because the holes interrupt the tree's movement of water and nutrients ...

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

Tapping ] ♪♪ Year after year, a small Hairy woodpecker makes nest holes in a flooded stand at the edge of a beaver pond. ♪♪ A dead tree with last year's hole is exactly the home Eastern ...

There are also tiny holes in the trunk like a woodpecker might cause, but we don’t have any of those birds around. Is this caused by beetles? We want to save our tree. Dear Reader: I can’t ...

“Engineers” of forests, healthy woodpecker populations ... flow of resin on the tree’s trunk to deter rat snakes, the red-cockaded’s main predator. The holes don’t kill the trees but ...

That helps them because the woodpecker is also the only bird that digs holes in living pine trees ... Once they’ve got their hole built, they peck at the tree’s bark around to release sap ...