Was splitting some of my Hurricane Irene wood around the end of December and found these little guys. This piece was silver maple. From my research, they look like sugar maple borers, but wasn't sure they'd be in a silver maple. I'm guessing they were there before the tree came down as the work that they've done appears to be a lot for a couple of cool months. Any ideas?
Who are these little guys.....?
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Wood Duck
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I looks to me like they are in a rotten part of the wood - I am saying they may have been wokring longer than a few months. I don't know what they are.
It wasn't rotten when I split it. Just the standard maple discoloration that you get in silver and red maple. This was a piece of crotch wood split down the middle, so that's probably why the grain looks funny above the Y.
I am burning some silver maple as I type. I burn a lot of it and I have never seen any grubs in the wood I have processed or burnt. i once got some punky wood with termites but never any bores. Hopefully some bug gurus will chime in. All bugs burn great! good luck
they very well could be sugar maple borers. I would think that they wouldn't be too particular as to what kind of maple they bore into. All maple trees are probably victim to that borer. I will say in the past several years, the trees we've been cutting have been gettin worse as far as borer infestation. I think it is going to continue to get worse as the warmer climates invade further north. A lot of species of trees are going to be in trouble.
JustWood
Minister of Fire
fortunateLEE said:
Lee that is genius I never thought of that! I shall collect them for fishing now.
Pete
I guess these little critters are why they don't want you to move firewood long distances. This wood just moved about 400 yards. Too bad I didn't think to harvest them for fishing.. Maybe they're still in the wood pile. Stunned that someone knocked down the wall of their house in the dead of winter..
The Beagler
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The Beagler
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Flatbedford
Minister of Fire
and the kicker is you can collect them all fall and winter while yer splitting yer wood, keep them in a container filled with chips/noodles from the chainsaw. Put some slits in the lid, and keep them in a cold spot in the fridge (somewhere the wife won't open it up and FREAK out! :ahhh: ). Come springtime, yer gonna have a pile of good baits just in time fer the crappie spawn and fer trout season!! Great idea, Lee!!
The Beagler
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Scotty Overkill said:
I did just that last year with some oak I got. I probably collected close to 3 or 4 dozen & stored them in the fridge in the
Same container I kept the waxworms.
EXACTLY. I'm gonna start doing that too. (I just hope the BOSS doesn't find them in the fridge.... ;-P )The Beagler said:
loon
Minister of Fire
Find them all the time muck,but only in Maple?
this was today..
Not sure what they are? but will ask my neighbor tomorrow who is a bug lady ;-)
loon
this was today..
Not sure what they are? but will ask my neighbor tomorrow who is a bug lady ;-)
loon
valley ranch
Feeling the Heat
aussiedog3
Feeling the Heat
+1 on the bluegill bait and our chickens love scratching thru the mulch left over after splitting to find them.
The chickens love the warm, wiggling food like that!
The chickens love the warm, wiggling food like that!
bogydave
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Redlegs
Feeling the Heat
Not meaning to steal your thread, but while we are buggin' out - what do you guys do when you get into a load of wood, start splitting it, and discover those big black ant colonies ?
Flatbedford
Minister of Fire
I keep on splitting. Then I watch every bird in the neighborhood go crazy eating them all when I am done.
weatherguy
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JeffersonCoKs said:
I toss the infected pieces off to the side, the next day they're all gone and I finish splitting the wood.
i have not seen them in maple i have cut on my place, but they are killen the hell out of the pines on my place every dead pine that cut down is full of them.loon said:Find them all the time muck,but only in Maple?
this was today..
Not sure what they are? but will ask my neighbor tomorrow who is a bug lady ;-)
loon
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