Here in Michigan those are called “widow-makers”
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We do have standing dead trees, and that’s all I’ve heard them called. Some of the woodcutters will put out ads saying they will remove the standing dead trees.
The dead trees that are snags are also standing, but are riddled with holes, mostly woodpeckers. They make lovely calling drums! It’s kind of sad when they do fall.
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I don’t know of a word that means dead but fully upright. Snagged trees may be dead or they could still have part of their root plate functional and live for many years, as can trees that have fully fallen over.
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I learned about the existence of workerless inquiline ant species. The queens insert themselves into the nests of multi-queen species and that colony feeds and raises their new queens and drones
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