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Originally Posted by Orion
If the pileateds are boring heavily into your trees, they are likely pretty well infested with wood-boring grubs and they are being damaged from the inside. They are letting you know that this tree is dying and you wouldn't otherwise know the tree is already at risk of coming down in a storm at some point in the future.
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Correct, in our case it was carpenter ants. The tree was pretty well hollowed out in the center and ready to be blown down.
That is Peter from White Mt Tree Service.
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