Powder post beetle
Bought a flagstaff travel trailer 3/14 and noticed yellow powder on ledges of cabinets. Did some research to find out that it was powder post beetles and they were in the paneling when we bought it fr...
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Durhamcutter wrote:
We know a little about Powder Post Beatles, we had 26ft of new cabinets put in our Kitchen and found out that they were loaded with Beatles, at first no one knew what they were, had to go to LSU to find out. First of all they can live for 50 years in the wood and not come out,this is what you see in antique furniture that looks like worm holes,you cannot kill all of them because you cannot get to the beatles in the wood. The wood is brought in to the US from other country's and they don't process the wood the same as required by the US , they are suppose to heat the wood when they get ready to ship to 190 degrees, if they do it will kill the Beatle but is not required to be shipped and used in the US. It cost me 8000. dollars to treat my house and they still didn't guarantee that they would be able to kill all of the beatles. THEY WILL EAT EVERYTHING UP THAT HAS WOOD CONECTED TO IT AND THERE IS ALMOST NO RECOURCE . Hope you come to some solution , will look to see what you decide to do. Happy Camping
I really don't understand what the problem here is, Durhamcutter.
My wife and I would be overjoyed if we had these guys that you consistently referred to, popping in to our travel trailer. Those other beetles...not so much.
