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WOOD WORK
It was seven years ago when we last cleaned the dead equal diameter and alignment, these holes have prob-
wood on this tree. The wood seems to be in a good ably been made by a xylophagous insect, which makes
state and has the hardness particular to this species. taking care of the problem a priority.
Dirt and grit have managed to accumulate along the Generally speaking, wood borers (xylophagous) aren’t
grain of the wood, thus clean up is in order.
a [problem as they only eat dead wood. Sometimes
We have also noted the presence of borer holes that they even benefit the design, creating fissures and
were not there when we last worked on the tree. Of holes on the wood. The problem is taming them….
We begin at the base. In this part we have dead bark that covers the With a small chisel and a metal gouge, we rectify the live vein..
dead wood.
These holes pinpoint the presence of wood borers….. We keep pinpointing the affected zone and discover that the
borer galleries extend to the nebari.
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