Our only sugar maple has been attacked by woodpeckers. After we bought our house I saw there were insects in the tree. We had a service trim up all the trees to get off the dead and dying branches. We have a large assortment of woodpeckers. The same tree service was across the street at a neighbors. They offered to take it down. $800.00!. After all the years of being on the farm and cutting something like this for firewood....