"Yes, Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos will rip through tree
trunks and branches. If you have a closer look you might see where they
have extracted wood boring grubs. I once saw great "destruction" of a
patch of snow gums, branches were on the ground everywhere, all chewed off by
the cockies, but you could also see the hollow groove in the fallen branch where
the grub had been chewing, and that's what the cockies were
after........."
Please send some Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos to my
place!
One by one my shrubs and small trees are being victimised
by wood boring grubs. Whilst the allocasuarina verticillatas, correas
- reflexa, alba & pulchella - and westringia fructicosas usually
carry on growing regardless of the devastation caused by the grub a strong gust
of wind causes the shrub to break at the weakened spot. Apart from
crying what can I do when this happens?
Val Ford
Sorrento, Vic
