Tree bark damaged and flies infested

[Christopher23434]

48 minutes ago, roys said:

While nailing the fly😀

Unfortunately I can only hit a target around as big as a strawberry, and not 100% of the time. Talking about that, it is possible all the strawberry juice from my demos has attracted the flies, though I cannot be sure because all the other trees around the area are infected.

 

I am a lot less panicked about the tree and I hope/think that It will be okay after doing some additional research .  

 

 

Edited June 20, 2021 by Christopher23434

[Christopher23434]

I have a few pictures of the tree bark damage  (that last one is for identification):

[Christopher23434]

Is this damage potentially harmful to the tree?

[topchippyles]

1 minute ago, Christopher23434 said:

Is this damage potentially harmful to the tree?

Stop throwing knives at it and it will be fine 

[Christopher23434]

Lol it seems that you have not read my above posts. Let me make this brief. I am not throwing knives at it, I stopped weeks ago after finding out stripping bark could cause damage.

 

Now I am wondering if there is anything I can do to make sure the tree lives.

 

Thank you for reading

[topchippyles]

Just leave it be and will be fine 

[Christopher23434]

I certainly hope so. Although my long standing motto is that hope is not a strategy. 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

2 hours ago, topchippyles said:

Stop throwing knives at it and it will be fine 

Les, for the love of God, leave him well alone!

 

He can hit a ****************ing strawberry at 30 paces with a throwing knife!

 

Put the keyboard down and back away slowly without making too much eye contact and definitely no sudden movements!

[topchippyles]

5 minutes ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Les, for the love of God, leave him well alone!

 

He can hit a ****************ing strawberry at 30 paces with a throwing knife!

 

Put the keyboard down and back away slowly without making too much eye contact and definitely no sudden movements!

Double barrel will do him no more problem 🤙

[Christopher23434]

Are we getting into a boasting mach? I can shoot much better than I throw knives

 

But to be honest, I have to correct you. I cannot hit a strawberry from 30 feet (only 5-10 ft) but can hit a plank about 2 ft by 3 ft from that far. 

 

I am working on breaking my record and a few hours ago I might have just done it. I will have to measure it tomorrow.

 

But back to the subject, does anyone have any thoughts about how to ensure the trees survival?