"flicker" wrote in message
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Woodpeckers may damage infested wood in search of
bee larvae in the tunnels. In the case of thin wood, such as siding, this
damage can be severe.

What a bunch of blithering ''the sky is falling'' nonsense.

The key word here being "large" numbers of bees, as in you'd have to have
hundreds of boring females to get to this point referenced so absurdly
above.

Ummm.... You should see the job the pileateds did on the back of my house,
starting at the carpenter bee holes. We live in a forest.

But the sky isn't falling. Tonight there's something magical going on, as
hundreds and hundreds of cicadas emerge and molt. You can hear the shells
splitting, there are so many. Or maybe it's them rustling in the leaves,
making their way to climb something. They're on the back of the house, the
oak trees, the sassafras, the dandelion stalks, the poison ivy. Two of them
are hanging from the Virginia bluebell plants. Still white, resting next to
their shells after 17 years underground.