help!!

[My Foot Smells]

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was chasing down a varmit and then saw this: WTF!!!

[AlittleSalt]

We have borer beetles here every year - especially locus borer beetles. (They're supposed to be in eastern states, but they're here in Texas too.) They make holes that look a lot like what woodpeckers make mostly on dead branches.

The bottom picture ... where there some Psilocybin mushrooms out there? j/k - I have no clue.

[My Foot Smells]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

We have borer beetles here every year - especially locus borer beetles. (They're supposed to be in eastern states, but they're here in Texas too.) They make holes that look a lot like what woodpeckers make mostly on dead branches.

The bottom picture ... where there some Psilocybin mushrooms out there? j/k - I have no clue.

just got through talking with the arborist (pat from LA - that's lousiana folks, not the city of angels), very nice guy and informative. the holes are from the yellow bellied sap sucker and the small beetles are just opportunist bugs eating the sap.

he said no worries, the wounds will heal. whew!!

also reports there are no "bore" beetles in Arkansas that are affecting pecan, do think there is some affecting the red oak though.......

[My Foot Smells]

haha. 2nd pic is on a table inside the shop. holes probably are from a woodpecker. we have several that work the tree over, 2 feet tall red heads, downy's etc... the tree is about 80' tall with a canopy of 100'.... then again, could be the work of a yellow bellied sap sucker making the holes. could be worms in the tree, that then become beatles? or......

maybe worms got into the holes and beetles are eating worms? idk

going to investigage........ this tree provides much shade and is stately, i have much love. black sap, have secured a couple of the small beatles in a jelly jar and will contact the local extension and stop by an arborist supply business by my work (never been there - maybe?)

[AlittleSalt]

Years ago, we would cut firewood from the thorn trees out here. Of course, we would stack it up in piles for burning in the fireplace in winter. When you would walk past the stacked wood - you could actually hear the borers, see the fine dust, and the smell was the first thing you noticed.

I have lived here since 1980 and still see these every year https://www.google.com/search?q=locu...Hd1hCWgQsAQIIg even after moving a mile down the same road (where we live now - since 92). There is no fireplace here, but we still selectively cut wood to BBQ with, but only enough to use in a few month's time because the borers will quickly make sawdust out of the logs.

[Worth1]

So it was a woodpecker after all.

[My Foot Smells]

wow, that's a nasty look creature, salt. if you lay a stick on the ground here, the termites will eat it up in a jiffy. they clear cut the red oaks out of the Ozarks 10-15 years ago b/c of the bore beetle. they decided to also cut healthy trees, so they could use the wood, as it was just a matter of time before they got hacked.

W1, yes a woodpecker, more specifically yellow bellied sap sucker. We get some big birds coming off the river flyway and various woodpecker types. it has been storied that the WP actually spreads the mistletoe from tree ----> tree, IDK. But they do like to hammer on that pecan bark.

yeller bellied sap sucker:

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[Nematode]

Up north the hummingbirds are completely reliant on the holes made by the yellow bellied sapsuckers. Hummingbirds arrive before any flowers are open and feed at the sapsucker tree wounds, mostly on birch which has about 1% sugar in its sap.

[dmforcier]

where there some Psilocybin mushrooms out there?

Find horse pasture. Look on horse puckey for long elfin-capped 'shrooms. Consume carefully.