Jenny- Might be too easy of an answer...could the holes be from taps, for sugar production? -Don
> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:03:41 -0800 > Subject: [ENTS] New York Botanical Garden/Bronx Forest Trees > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > Hi! > > I am so happy I found your discussion group while researching Hemlocks > and other trees native to NYC and environs. I'm a volunteer assistant > to the curator of the NYBG Forest and I'm working on a winter tree id > booklet for the arborists and Forest volunteers and I would love to > get some input/advice. Especially about some of the more difficult to > identify trees. > > I hope I can figure out how to post pictures. I wanted to ask if > anyone thinks some quarter size holes in an older sugar maple > (probably >100ya) were made by the Asian long-horned beetle or maybe > just woodpeckers, or something else I don't know about. It's a > beautiful and healthy tree now. And it's in such prominent location > that if the insects were after it, they would immediately treat it. > > Is this the right forum for me to discuss all this? I hope so. I've > learned a lot looking through past post topics. > > Jenny > > > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Contacts: Organize your contact list. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/marcusatmicrosoft.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!503D1D86EBB2B53C!2285.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_UGC_Contacts_032009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
