Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Help- powderpost beetles eating our bamboo floor

[Norm Gauss (normangauss11]

Here is a website that talks about wood-boring beetles.  Hope it helps.

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7418.html

Norm Gauss
Oak Creek Commons
Paso Robles, CA


At 02:08 PM 12/30/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> Hello
> Our unit at Pleasant Hill cohousing, CA has bamboo floors in some areas. Our
> floors were installed 2 years ago and no one has any kind of bug problems so
> far
> Just two days ago we noticed that there were small round exit holes with
> fresh 'wood' powder around them in one of the bamboo planks and today I
> caught a beetle emerging from one of the holes. Further research on the
> internet points to it being a 'powderpost beetle' maybe.
>
> We are trying to find out the contact info for a wood inspector that
> understands how important it is for us to remain environmentally friendly
> while trying to deal with this bug situation.
>
> Can anyone point me to a source (I was thinking that Berkeley might be a
> good place to start but I dont know how to go about finding a inspector
> apart from going down a list in the yellow pages)
>
>  They are just in one babmboo plank so far and I can see other 'would be'
> exit holes in that same plank already. We dont know how this happened since
> we just bought the unit a month ago; its quite possible that the larvae came
> inside the plank before installation (internet sources say the larvae can
> sometimes stay inside the wood for two years)
>
> Thanks in advance
> Veena - member Pleasant Hill cohousing, CA
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