Post #351595 by Benzart on Thu, Dec 27, 2007 6:10 PM

Hey Aloha, Thanks, the Bar? May be too high for me this time!
Beatles? First thing to do would be to skin the bark off them because the beetles need the bark to lay their eggs in so the worms will have food. When the worm gets big enough they dive into the wood outta the bark. Then there are the Borers who drill right into the wood and start deep so you have to treat the log deep. If it is a really bad infestation you can take the logs to an exterminator's shop where they have a room set up to treat individual furniture. Other things to do are to use the bug bombs in your wood shed. I used to sell ray tree materials to a company in Deerfield who sold to the silk tree trade. We sold branches, bark, palm spathes and stuff like that. They had a "Exterminating" room set up just for that purpose. I can't remember the name of the company but they were in the warehouse complex on the Southeast corner on Powerline and 10th Street, there in Deerfield.
You Don't want to sell a carving that starts spewing out powder-post beetles in 6 months. There are Lots of ways to exterminate bugz.