what is this bug(ger)?

[THE88MAN]

could be a quick thread this one! some kind of bug/worm has been chomping its way through my ash firewood stock for the last few years,it bores in and leaves alot of dust but doesn't decimate the wood,if anything seems to speed up the drying process,whats it called?!

[David oakman]

Ash bark beetle or large Ash bark beetle:001_smile:

[THE88MAN]

short thread then! is it already in the wood or does it find it once stacked? my yard is 15 miles from where i coppice and nowhere near woodland,but only seems to appear once the wood is in and stacked

[David oakman]

Two years ago i was planting 14000 hedge plants, the canes kept breaking and were dust in one we found a large beetle i sent it to forest research a letter came back it was an asian bamboo longhorn beetle and we had to burn all the canes.

[David oakman]

I plant some small platations in Ash for future firewood i loose one or two trees a year to this beetle, but i leave the wood in the plantation and do not take it to the woodyard as it would go through all the stacked cordwood.Same as rabbits if you fell some Ash leave some brashon the floor the rabbits eat this instead of the butts:001_smile:

[THE88MAN]

thats interesting david,many thanks,i always think ash is overrated and overhyped anyway,i've got eucalyptus,blackthorn and lombardy poplar(yes really)sizzling away on my woodburner tonight and i'm sitting in my underpants(nearly!)the beetle can keep the ash

[David oakman]

Ditto but tonight i am burning staghead oak or ironoak roasting best firewood you can buy. Like you i dont rate ash myself i sell that and use oak,field maple,black and white thorn, hazel,hornbeam ect for me.

[18 stoner]

Ditto but tonight i am burning staghead oak

 

Now that must be the most royal of firewood. Im jelous:sneaky2: