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Question
I have serria's one is already gone from last year, it seems to be little circle holes, like a typewriter put them on. with a white caping in the hole, and looks like it takes the life out of the tree in a years time, it seems? Help

Answer
What you are describing is made by a woodpecker (bird) called a Sap sucker. These birds make the holes and insects will come to feed on the sap and the bird returns to eat the insects. The white is sap from the pine You can spry the bark where the holes are located with an insecticide and this will ill the insects and the birds will stop coming. Use any house hold insecticide like Raid or Sevin.
I would also fertilize the tree with 10-10-10 fertilizer at the rate of 1 lb of fertilizer per inch of trunk diameter scattered around the tree and watered in good. Do this now and again in the spring.

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