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Birds help get the bugs out of sapped pine
By Katy Human Denver Post Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 08/01/2007 06:03:26 AM MDT
Hanging upside-down to gobble insects from pine boughs, chickadees and other birds do pine forests a great service - helping trees grow faster, by as much as a third, according to a new study. Fewer aphids and other sap-sucking bugs plague the trees when birds are around, said Kailen Mooney, a doctoral graduate from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The Research:
Read the research behind this story in the journal Ecology.