Is this a powder post beetle?

[Big Ry]

I was just going through a couple shipments of wood that i received today - one from Cook woods, the other from a Canadian dealer - and as I was marking up the labels i saw the little bug pictured below run across right in front of me. It's about 3/8" - 1/2" long.

I'm not in my shop where i store my wood.. I'm in my dining room. The wood that I'm processing includes the following boards & slabs: angelim vermelho, angelim pedra, carob , African olive, silver wattle, red narra, queen ebony. And it also includes the following bowl blanks that are fully waxed: silver wattle, piquiarana, Oregon ironwood, Brazilian peppermint. I do not see any bug holes in any of these pieces, nor do i see a pile of sawdust anywhere. I only got these in the mail a few hours ago.

So do i need to be worried about this or what?

 

[Nature Man]

I was just going through a couple shipments of wood that i received today - one from Cook woods, the other from a Canadian dealer - and as I was marking up the labels i saw the little bug pictured below run across right in front of me. It's about 3/8" - 1/2" long.

I'm not in my shop where i store my wood.. I'm in my dining room. The wood that I'm processing includes the following boards & slabs: angelim vermelho, angelim pedra, carob , African olive, silver wattle, red narra, queen ebony. And it also includes the following bowl blanks that are fully waxed: silver wattle, piquiarana, Oregon ironwood, Brazilian peppermint. I do not see any bug holes in any of these pieces, nor do i see a pile of sawdust anywhere. I only got these in the mail a few hours ago.

So do i need to be worried about this or what?

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Very good chance. Look at images on an Internet search -- definitely look like it's in the same general family. I would isolate the wood that has the visible holes, and treat them with Bora-care, or something similar. If you intermingle the untreated wood you might end up with much bigger problems. Chuck

 

[Big Ry]

Very good chance. Look at images on an Internet search -- definitely look like it's in the same general family. I would isolate the wood that has the visible holes, and treat them with Bora-care, or something similar. If you intermingle the untreated wood you might end up with much bigger problems. Chuck

None of it has bug holes. That's the thing. This is all solid wood, and half of it is covered in wax.

 

[daniscool]

None of it has bug holes. That's the thing. This is all solid wood, and half of it is covered in wax.

Maybe scrape off the wax. It can sometimes obscure defects. Then spray all of them with a borax solution just to be safe.

 

[Big Ry]

Well my point with the wax is that if it came from inside a waxed blank, the wax would have to have a hole in it.

Maybe it was not a powder post beetle. It was definitely a beetle of some kind, and it was very similarly shaped. But it would seem unlikely that id only see 1 and see it within hours of taking possession of the wood

 

[Webb]

How big was he?

 

[Big Ry]

How big was he?

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Roughly 3/8" to 1/2" long

 

[Webb]

Adult PPBs are about the size of a grain of rice. It’s probably just a ground beetle.

Also beetles love corrugated boxes and that is most likely how your friend arrived. Hospitals have rules where outside corrugated shipping cartons are allowed because of insects.

 

[Big Ry]

Adult PPBs are about the size of a grain of rice. It’s probably just a ground beetle.

Also beetles love corrugated boxes and that is most likely how your friend arrived. Hospitals have rules where outside corrugated shipping cartons are allowed because of insects.

Ok thanks. Yeah this was definitely much bigger than a grain of rice.