Bugs in Ash???

[Dave Martin]

I`m sure that this must have been covered before but I received some ash recently and it appears to have or had something burrowing into it ... would this be a problem to bring into the house?

[Charlieh]

that looks like woodworm surely?

 

 

where you are lifting the logs from are there little piles of dust under each hole, or put a few of the logs over a peice of paper for a few days and see if any fine dust accumulates under it, the piles of dust will be about 1 or 2 mmm high so very small

Edited October 19, 2010 by Charlieh

[landrover 101]

It will be a problem for whatever is burrowing if it is still in there when you chuck it on to the fire and it gets an instant cremation

[Dave Martin]

It will be a problem for whatever is burrowing if it is still in there when you chuck it on to the fire and it gets an instant cremation

 

It was only felled last week so its a long way off burning yet but sometimes I bring fresh logs inside to put in the inglenook and also I dont want the rest of my logs to become infested.

[Fentiger]

We`ve noticed a lot of that in our Ash this year,

There is another thread on here about this problem and someone wrote that woodworm don`t exist in fresh felled wood (or something along those lines). So, presumably, this is caused by something else?

[SJH]

Looks like Shothole borer beatle, the beatle bores in leaves it eggs, then when the eggs hatch they channel their way out under the bark, if you remove the bark you might find their channels they look pretty impressive!, they feed on dead or dying fruit trees, but they feed on ash aswell.

[Dave Martin]

Looks like Shothole borer beatle, the beatle bores in leaves it eggs, then when the eggs hatch they channel their way out under the bark, if you remove the bark you might find their channels they look pretty impressive!, they feed on dead or dying fruit trees, but they feed on ash aswell.

 

I think I may have seen that on some dead standing ash in my field were the bark was stripped and lots of worm like grooves were in the tree. Do they infest other wood?

[SJH]

That will be the ones you can see the channels getting wider as they eat the phloem tissue. Are you on about other cut wood? or living? They genaraly feed on stressed living trees, not sure about, say a log pile?.

 

Shothole borer, Ambrosia beetle

 

This might help.

[Dave Martin]

That will be the ones you can see the channels getting wider as they eat the phloem tissue. Are you on about other cut wood? or living? They genaraly feed on stressed living trees, not sure about, say a log pile?.

 

Shothole borer, Ambrosia beetle

 

This might help.

 

Originally I was referring to some fresh felled ash that I had collected ... thanks for the link thats perfect .. Arbtalk is better than `Ask Jeeves`

[Fentiger]

Yes, thanks for that link. That`s settled my mind too.