Hickory infested with wood beetle. The remedy?

[Dmitry]

I've got Hickory that was dropped last year. It was stored in rounds over the winter. Did not have time to split it. Now I see powder on it and larva in the outer layers of wood when splitting. The bark does not come easily.
I'm trying to split it fairly small, like 3 by 4 inches, and stack it in the area exposed to the sun. Is this OK? Any other advice on wood like this?
Some pictures.

 

[Ctwoodtick]

I’d stack that wood under cover and not worry about the bugs. My opinion in general is that once the wood is dry most bugs become less of a thing. I believe some types stay in wood that is dry though. Like with all firewood, I’d try to not have too much stored indoors at a time to minimize risk of bug issues in the house.
Personally, I would not consider the use of any pesticides on firewood. Mostly completely unnecessary in my opinion.

 

[Prof]

I’d stack that wood under cover and not worry about the bugs. My opinion in general is that once the wood is dry most bugs become less of a thing. I believe some types stay in wood that is dry though. Like with all firewood, I’d try to not have too much stored indoors at a time to minimize risk of bug issues in the house.
Personally, I would not consider the use of any pesticides on firewood. Mostly completely unnecessary in my opinion.

Don't have much to add--once the wood is dry bugs tend to leave. I've had this in hickory too. It still burned fine when seasoned.

 

[brenndatomu]

Yup, BTDT, NBD. Bugs have BTU's too.

 

[Simonkenton]

I have some advice. Don't use any more hickory.

I got a 2 ton load of hickory delivered one time. Really good looking wood, nice and fresh. It was already split but I split it a little smaller and stacked it under the covered woodshed. Woodshed gets afternoon sun and lots of wind, perfect woodshed.
In two years the wood was dry and I went to burn it.

The wood was covered with fine white powder! I split a piece and those little white worms came spilling out. I about fainted, never seen such a thing, and I've been splitting firewood for 42 years. I went ahead and burned it but I was scared to stack the pieces inside the house, didn't want weevils eating my log cabin. I would pile it up on the porch and bring it inside one stick at a time and put it right in the Jotul.

As the guys said, the worms burn just fine.
I know the BTU rating of hickory, great firewood, but no more hickory for me.

 

[Stinkpickle]

Hickory does that for me, too. The bugs just aerate it for me.