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Default squirrels attacking maple trees

On 12/29/2011 2:54 PM, Matt wrote:
I have a couple of big silver maples, 40 years old and about three feet
in diameter.


I've noticed in the past few years that fox squirrels are trying to dig
a hole in each tree by clawing and biting. Each wound is in the trunk,
about chest high, where a small limb has been removed years ago and the
trunk is growing out around the stub. So there is already a kind of
recess in the trunk, and they are trying to turn it into a hole. I have
noticed that sometimes a lot of thin sap runs out of the wound and wets
the side of the trunk. Sometimes woodpeckers also do their work on the
same wound.


What is the best way to stop the damage and make the trees live longer?


Make the lives of the squirrels shorter!

Don