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

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

You could call the Ecology Store in Berkeley (Oakland?). It's where I got my
no VOC paint, and they have lots of resources and knowledgeable people. You
can find them online.

-- 
Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California
lilbert [at] comcast.net

> From: "Veena Achar" <veenaachar [at] hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:08:56 -0800
> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: [C-L]_Help- powderpost beetles eating our bamboo floor
> 
> 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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> Veena Achar
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