Mrbouncyballs
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Finding holes in our large pine tree. What is this? I assume it is bad. How do we stop it?
Tree is approx 75ft tall
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Tree is approx 75ft tall
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What is doing this. Bug?
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Those are holes from a sapsucker. Rarely fatal in spruce.
Mrbouncyballs
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Thanks for the reply
anything we can do to stop or get eig of them?
And a spruce, that is the kind of pine tree that is?
The damage done to the spruce trees can be significant.
An excellent research project on the nature of sapsuckers and their associated damage:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/download/7062.pdf
Now as to whether spruce trees are "pine trees" ? No, they are not pine trees.
Not exactly, anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinaceae
Trees are generally divided into two very large groups. Angiosperm, and Gymnosperms. These two divisions refer to how the plants grow flower parts and propagate themselves. Most folk don't pay any attention to these distinctions, and just call the Gymnosperms an "evergreen tree" or often just a "pine tree".
Around here, a forum filled with people dedicated to spreading knowledge about trees, we try to avoid these kind of generalizations, which we consider grossly inaccurate.
Yes, your tree is definitely a gymnosperm, a known "evergreen". To us purists, however, that is not at all a pine tree. Perhaps this will help:
If you squint real close at this picture, you will see that Pinus is only a small subset of the gymnosperms, yet closely related to the fir and spruce trees. Look at the dark green text.
So yes, they do look a lot like pine trees to folks that have not yet learned to tell them apart. Keep hanging around here, and you will learn to tell them apart at a glance.
An excellent research project on the nature of sapsuckers and their associated damage:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/download/7062.pdf
Now as to whether spruce trees are "pine trees" ? No, they are not pine trees.
Not exactly, anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinaceae
Trees are generally divided into two very large groups. Angiosperm, and Gymnosperms. These two divisions refer to how the plants grow flower parts and propagate themselves. Most folk don't pay any attention to these distinctions, and just call the Gymnosperms an "evergreen tree" or often just a "pine tree".
Around here, a forum filled with people dedicated to spreading knowledge about trees, we try to avoid these kind of generalizations, which we consider grossly inaccurate.
Yes, your tree is definitely a gymnosperm, a known "evergreen". To us purists, however, that is not at all a pine tree. Perhaps this will help:
If you squint real close at this picture, you will see that Pinus is only a small subset of the gymnosperms, yet closely related to the fir and spruce trees. Look at the dark green text.
So yes, they do look a lot like pine trees to folks that have not yet learned to tell them apart. Keep hanging around here, and you will learn to tell them apart at a glance.
Hotsauce or more permanent would be a bullet.
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=...12&type=523482&p=pictures+of+a+sapsucker+bird
https://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=...12&type=523482&p=pictures+of+a+sapsucker+bird
