Can fungi destroy trees?
— Fungi can invade the trunks and limbs of old trees with wounds. They soften and prepare the wood so that beetles, wasp larvae, and carpenter ants build tunnels, which further weakens the tree.Balancing tale 3: Can caterpillars destroy trees? — Caterpillars, when they grow in big numbers, can defoliate an oak tree. However, there is a type of parasitic wasp that destroys the caterpillar moth’s eggs. If there are enough wasps that eat a good number of the eggs, there will be less caterpillars, and the trees will be happy. Three or four defoliates can destroy a tree!Balancing tale 4: Can worms help trees? — A crucial and unsung hero is the earthworm. During warm rainy periods it stays above ground, but during the cold winter, it wriggles downward as far as it can to avoid freezing. It spends most of the winter one to four inches below the surface. In doing so it conditions the soil for shallow probing oak roots by literally eating his way around. This is very helpful, and many times
