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.
The Beeches is a historic mansion in Springfield, Tennessee, USA.HistoryThe mansion was completed in 1869. It was designed in the Italianate architectural style. It was built for John Woodard, who served in the Tennessee House of Representatives. He gifted the mansion to his son, Albert G. Woodard, in 1889.