Wood Eating Pests

[feverdog71]

Anybody recognize these suckers? I'm thinking these are what turned a small percentage of my wood pile into wood dust last year. Would sure like to know what they are.

Hopefully, none will get in my woodpile for next season.

 

[Simonkenton]

I don't know the bugs but that sawdust looks familiar. That wood looks like hickory.
I got a load of hickory last year and it was infested with bugs that made all kinds of sawdust. I never saw a damn bug, though.

 

[feverdog71]

I don't know the bugs but that sawdust looks familiar. That wood looks like hickory.
I got a load of hickory last year and it was infested with bugs that made all kinds of sawdust. I never saw a damn bug, though.

You are correct, that is hickory. I think that log was infested before I brought it home. After I stacked it up, I saw saw dust in one corner of my pile where I had some newly split hickory. By the winter, I was seeing dust all over my wood pile. They did some serious damage.

 

[feverdog71]

Found it...........

https://bugguide.net/node/view/567333

 

[Jan Pijpelink]

https://biology.stackexchange.com/q...triped-insect-identification-northern-indiana

http://mobugs.blogspot.com/2015/03/painted-hickory-borer.html

 

[Simonkenton]

I have burned all kinds of wood, oak, black walnut, beech, cherry you name it. But this was the first load of hickory that I had gotten and I mean, that pile is covered with that damn sawdust.

I posted my problem on here and the guys said it is the hickory beetle and he just wants to get in the bark of a living tree.
Which means that he probably doesn't want to gnaw on the white pine logs of my log cabin.
Nevertheless I don't bring that wood in to the house unless I am putting it right on the fire. I store some of it on my deck which is PT pine I don't think hickory bugs will eat much of that.

PITA But hickory is great firewood so it is a two edged sword.