That appealing smell of fresh-cut pine is resin, a sap-like defense mechanism that trees release when they are wounded to ...
The shothole borer is a small beetle that can kill an entire tree by boring round holes the size of the tip of a ballpoint pen into a tree’s bark. A beetle is shown in an entry hole above.
As the first part of building a beetle bucket involves cutting holes with a sharp knife ... Fill the rest of the bucket with bark chips and/or dead leaves, leaving around 10cm at the top to ...