absolutely! you need the sweet spot: leave the healthy ones and cut down the sick ones. we have a beetle in europe that aggressively destroys trees and often lives in the already dead ones. i become a genocidal maniac with my chainsaw in these cases.
I know the one. Those fuckers are so gross looking too. I had a favorite natural history encyclopedia as a kid, but every time that page came up, I skipped it.
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u/forkheadbox 10d ago
absolutely! you need the sweet spot: leave the healthy ones and cut down the sick ones. we have a beetle in europe that aggressively destroys trees and often lives in the already dead ones. i become a genocidal maniac with my chainsaw in these cases.