Post by anmbug on Oct 8, 2011 7:09:55 GMT -8
Hi,
My wife found 3 pyramid shaped, neat piles of fine wood...frass...underneath some firewood from last winter we had sitting inside a few feet from the wood stove. I took that single piece of firewood into the garage and with a chisel & hammer took a piece off. And, I discovered a live bug inside. I believe it is a powder post beetle but I am not an expert.
Can one of you confirm the id for me?
And, so the next question is should I be worried since we live in a cedar log home and we are putting up pine T&G over the existing sheetrock?
And, how do I confirm this was the only beetle in this house?
We also hope to put down a red oak engineered floor in the next few months, removing the laminate floor shown under the frass. So, we hope this is the only one.
The floor is 2" of gypcrete with radiant in-floor heat on top of 3/4" T&G subfloor on top of 10" I-joists. The interior walls are standard 2x6 & 2x4 stud walls and the 6" solid cedar classic D-shaped logs are only the exterior logs.
Do these bugs like cedar, or is cedar naturally resistant to bugs? What about the pine T&G and the stud walls?
Thank you for the help.
My wife found 3 pyramid shaped, neat piles of fine wood...frass...underneath some firewood from last winter we had sitting inside a few feet from the wood stove. I took that single piece of firewood into the garage and with a chisel & hammer took a piece off. And, I discovered a live bug inside. I believe it is a powder post beetle but I am not an expert.
Can one of you confirm the id for me?
And, so the next question is should I be worried since we live in a cedar log home and we are putting up pine T&G over the existing sheetrock?
And, how do I confirm this was the only beetle in this house?
We also hope to put down a red oak engineered floor in the next few months, removing the laminate floor shown under the frass. So, we hope this is the only one.
The floor is 2" of gypcrete with radiant in-floor heat on top of 3/4" T&G subfloor on top of 10" I-joists. The interior walls are standard 2x6 & 2x4 stud walls and the 6" solid cedar classic D-shaped logs are only the exterior logs.
Do these bugs like cedar, or is cedar naturally resistant to bugs? What about the pine T&G and the stud walls?
Thank you for the help.
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