The size of hole may vary from very small to up to 3/8 inch or so. Very small holes in evergreen trees that are beginning to look thin and sick may indicate a type of bark borer. Slightly larger holes ...

Unfortunately, when a tree begins a cycle of decline, it “smells” more appetizing to many of these insect invaders, who send signals to their friends, and after a time the tree is a goner. The ...

In this week's Fielding Questions column, Don Kinzler addresses how to prevent woodpecker damage, improving tulip blooms and collecting seeds from flowers.

Q: Something bored holes in lines across the trunk of my California pepper tree. Sap bled from the holes and I thought the tree might die. What should I do?A: The injury on your pepper tree was cau… ...

The hole extends up and down inside the trunk. It seems to be about half the diameter of the trunk, which is about 2-feet thick. Will spray foam protect our tree?

Q: I have a beautiful 10-foot-tall oak that has provided privacy with its wonderfully dense light green foliage. I enclosed a picture of a rapidly expanding bark rot-looking area that seems to be c ...

The sapsuckers create holes in the tree’s trunk, allow them to fill with sap, and then drink the liquid. The birds often go unnoticed, working in early hours, which is why they’re not often ...

After weeks of coronavirus isolation in England, 4-year-old Finley Ibrahim went to a local park — and quickly became lodged inside a tree trunk.

Q: My wife and I just moved into a house with a maple tree in the backyard. I noticed there is a sizable hole forming in the trunk. Inside the hole are wood chips, which I'm guessing are the ...

The pattern of holes is usually in a horizontal line circling the tree trunk. There are usually multiple rows of these holes. The holes also seem to appear virtually overnight.

Q: I have two very old oak trees that each have a hole in the trunk about 2 feet in diameter that was there when we built our house 30 years ago. Tree specialists have said to leave them alone ...

This modular set of stairs can be quickly and easily wrapped around any tree, without doing damage to the trunk. ... but there may be ways to hold things up without drilling even a single hole.