A friend at church lost her husband a few years ago. She sold her house and wondered if I wanted the firewood back in her woodshed. Sure! Talk about Powder Post Beetles! It was very Dusty loading the trailer. This will mostly be used in my OWB, but I do burn wood in my shop on a rare occasion. Is there anything I should take into consideration re: these beetles? I'll keep it stacked far from my other wood. I'll only store a couple days worth in the shop at a time. Thanks in advance. ETA, So far I've hauled one stacked trailer load and the one partially stacked then tossed since I realized I need to go back for about 3/4 load. No, I didn't load the truck. I had to go get roofing supplies as soon as I got home.
No worries at all. You see the dust and the beetles are gone. We get a certain amount of that every year but just don't worry about it at all.
I can't say I've ever noticed a problem with these before with our wood. Maybe we burn it too soon, maybe it's because we usually burn mostly hard wood?
I would use it only for the owb. They are in many ways equivalent to termites and you do not want them near your home. Usually they like damp-r wood but anything above 6% they can infest. You can spray borate to help mitigate them.
They seem to prefer the swamp maple here. Pretty sure they come and a go cuz I've never seen any in the house.
It is safe to say these little buggers like wood in general. :stacke: And they die when introduced to
