If you drink tea or coffee with sugar or you have flavoured syrups in your coffee shop drinks, you could be unwittingly damaging your teeth and adding unhelpful calories to your diet. A wide variety of tablet or granular artificial sweeteners are available and are safe to consume in your hot drinks.
Beech bark disease is the result of a complex interaction between three non-native pests (a tiny scale insect and two species of Nectria fungus) and a native Nectria fungus. The beech scale insect wounds the tree by piercing the bark with sharp mouth parts and sucking out the sap.
American beech (Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.) is an important component of the eastern deciduous forests of North America.anopy beech trees promote soil and forest floor conditions that favor beech regeneration at the expense of competitors such as sugar maple and hemlock. The production of prolific beech sprouts promotes competitive exclusion of other species.