Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees

Page numbers in parentheses. Italics are my own questions of the text.

Chapter 17 Notes            Chapter 18 Notes          Chapter 19 Notes

Chapter 14 Notes             Chapter 15 Notes         Chapter 16 Notes

Chapter 13 Notes             Chapter 12 Notes         Chapter 11 Notes

Chapter 10 Notes             Chapter 9 Notes           Chapter 8 Notes

Chapter 7 Notes               Chapter 6 Notes           Chapter 5 Notes

Chapters 3 & 4 Notes      Chapter 2 Notes      Foreword, Introductions, and Chapter 1 Notes

Chapter 20 – Community Housing Project

• birds, martins & bats (125)

• like thick trunks

• good insulation

• woodpeckers

• hack out 1 or two inch hole

• black woodpeckers

• work on multiple holes

• one for kids, one for sleeping

• take a month long break (126)

• fungi pitches in

• fungi keeps eating deeper

• woodpecker clears it out

• until hole too big for baby birds

• woodpecker moves out

• nuthatch (127)

• moves in

• closes up the too large entrance with mud

• wood conducts sound

• works as alarm for martins or squirrels

• if the bird has young can try to distract

• rarely works

• often have to try and raise a second brood

• bats

• some species need multiple homes to raise young (128)

• some species the females raise their young together

• spend only a few days in some quarters

• have to move before parasites move in

• owls

• need larger entrance

•trees try to heal wounds

• woodpeckers just hammer new wood away

•now rotting wood

• wood ants (129)

• fungi

• beetles

• animal excrement

• feeds bloodnecked click beetle

• hermit beetles

• can live in a tree for decades

• tree as community servant

• the more species diversity the less chance one will take over