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What you see here is my peach tree. Why am I showing you
this? Because this poor tree has had some kind of insect that bored a series
of small holes in it and it killed some of the main branches in the
center. See the dirt area in front of it with the bricks? There used to
be a cherry tree their and it was killed by the same insect that
attacked my peach tree.
The reason my peach tree is still alive is because once
I found out what killed my cherry tree, I was able to look for these
small holes in my existing trees and sure enough I found some. I
figured I had nothing to lose so it was time to do some pruning.
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The arrows are pointing to the branches that I cut off
in the center of my peach tree. But the good news is the tree is still
alive and still producing fruit a second year since pruning it.
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This is the other side of the same tree just to show you the center
branch is dead.
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The day I cut those limbs off, I just couldn't bring myself to throw them away because I thought someday I might make something from
them.
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The good news is I now have a project to make something
with it,
but the bad news is the size of said branch is only about 1 1/4"
diameter. That's okay because I won't need a very large piece for what I
have in mind.
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Investigating
Here is one of the many holes that I was talking about. I cut though it
because I was curious to what kind of damage I might find.
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The hole goes off at an angle.
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I inserted a paperclip, marked it, and then measured it.
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It went in about 1/2". However, did it take a turn or did it just go in
straight? I kept on cutting small pieces off but the hole never reached
the center.
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Here's a piece of my cherry tree. See those three small holes?
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Here's a close up of those three small holes. It's hard to believe that
something so small could kill a tree, but it did.
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