That flypaper finish of shiny, sticky resin suggests one reason: to discourage bud-chewing bugs.

The bucket rolled in a half-circle, but I'd packed the sticky resin in tightly.

In addition to waterproofing the tunnels, the sticky resin may help keep the termites out.

I swam in my long pants and tried to wash out the sticky resin from the tree.

The alembic, which only moments before had been coated in a sticky resin, was perfectly clear, its crystalline curves as transparent as glass.

At last he was in love with his rocks and his treeless little island, grown over only with small thick plants exuding sticky resin.

To contain contamination, workers have tried pouring liquid glass to stop a leak and spraying the ground with sticky resin to capture radiated dust.