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

[Anne Jackson (a.jackson]

Another good source is COMMON SENSE PEST CONTROL, by
Olkowski, Daar, and Olkowski. We have the big first edition,
but you can find a newer paper back at Amazon.com for a
small price. The authors direct the nonprofit Bio-Integral
Resource Center in Berkely, CA.

Anne Jackson, Oak Creek Commons

> 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
> >---------------------------------------------------------
> >Veena Achar
> >Save the rainforest  www.ran.org
> >http://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/01c.html
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