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A Monster Threat Is Coming for America’s Trees—and Scientists Are Racing to Stop It
(www.popularmechanics.com)
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the tree produces a thick resin to protect itself from attacks and fungus, but when they are under drought stress they cant use the resin, so it makes them easy to be the attacked.