Help! I’ve Got BUGS!

[Jason T. Radice]

They look like woodpecker holes to me. They are very often that methodical and symmetrical.

 

[Boilerplater]

Yeah, woodpecker.  The way they hop along trunks tends to be very even, thus the evenly spaced holes.

[Thomas J. Johnson]

Dang, you’re probably right… it looks like there is larvae in the holes but maybe it’s just sap…

Gonna have to go sleep on the expressway with my pellet gun…

http://youtu.be/tuhRhFyu-Bs

[Trace One]

Sapsucker, I think. The bird is worth more than the tree.

Just kidding.

[Gabriel S. Metz]

Yep that is the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

[Thomas J. Johnson]

Yes, tree art indeed. Now all I need is 250,000 rhinestones to stick in those holes, a pile of amphetamines to give me the manic ambition to complete the meaningless-mindless task and an exorbitant amount of free time to create free public art so that some guy with a lot of money and the right connections can steal my idea, take all the credit, and make himself even more money…

Been there done that…

Thanks but I think I’ll pass… 

[Jordan Lockman]

Woodpeckers generally only dine on trees that have larvae in them. Healthy trees do not generally harbor larvae. Is there something else wrong with the trees. Maybe the extremely mild winter is causing some irregularities?

[Andrew Garulay, RLA]

Yellow-bellied sapsuckers drill holes let sap accumulate and eat the sap. They can over do it and kill what was once a healthy tree, but generally don’t over do it.

 

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