 Could it be from the cicadas? Would it hurt my tree if I cut out the dead parts and then just sort of threw them away? It's never going to hurt anything when you cut out dead tissue. Okay. Dead tissue. So is it good? Oh, yeah, it's fine. Because, I mean, if it's dead, then if it's left there, eventually it's going to decay. And so you don't want that decay to spread everywhere.