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 American Beech needs full sun to grow well. The shape of the American Beech tree is like a large crown. Bark: The color of the bark is thin, smooth and light bluish-gray.The twigs are a thin gray color, and smooth. Leaves: The leaves are like teeth.