Bugs in Firewood

[Lucan]

Found this little maggot in some firewood today. Roundheaded Borer Larva. Found in firewood when it has been left to dry slowly (ie bark on, unsplit, open to the elements, etc).

[Aicchalmers]

tasty?

[gand]

Is it pine you've split? Can't tell from the pic

 

 

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[difflock]

Quite a few of those wee beasties in the Lodgepole Pine I was cutting n splitting yesterday.

Also intended to ask re which creature left the 4mm 5mm 6mm dia holes in a Sitka Butt.

Must be quite an impressive beastie. . . a Beetle larve presumably?

[Aicchalmers]

I've also seen some pretty big diamond shaped flying beetles burrowed right inside some rotten leylandii before ..

[Lucan]

Is it pine you've split? Can't tell from the pic

 

Larch

[gand]

Could well be wood wasp larvae

 

 

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[Joy Yeomans]

Wood wasp. I felt a scratch on my leg thought it was a splinter through my trousers it was a wood wasp trying to inject it's eggs into my knee. Should of seen me jump. cracked myself. As I must of smelt of wood as when I get sap on my hands I wipe it on my trousers.

[Logsnstuff]

I had alot of them 2 years ago had some pine and douglas in the yard had been sitting couple of years was riddled with them so I chopped the stuff up but decided against selling didnt think the customers would like the maggots or the woodwasps that had formed but couldn't get out.

[SamWhiting12]

Do they die when the wood is dry or can they still survive?