Well I have a few elms left but they seldom get more than a foot DBH .If I find a nice stout dead drop at least 5 - 6" I save it for side hauling logs .That stuff will bend like a noodle before it breaks .I'm old enough I remember those fat old elm trees lining city streets .
Speaking of gypsy moths a few years back I had some in these 100 foot oaks either covered with them or tent caterpillars .I wondered how to get rid of them .Then one day there must have been 500 crackles converge on those trees .After they gorged themselves not one insect remained .The insects...
Like I said the hickory thing is just the big ones .The eab got about everything over about 4-5 inches .The little ones didn't have enough inner bark to support the larva evidently . Kind of odd if you dropped them with just a few branches still alive they resprouted from the roots .When the big...
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