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5 Bugs That Eat Wood and How to Identify Them
Swarming insects around window frames, pools, spas, outbuildings, and outdoor wood furniture. Tip When you suspect an ...
New Scientist3d
Wood-eating beetles may make wildfires emit even more carbon
When downed trees are attacked by beetles, the wood becomes more flammable, demonstrating another way insects can alter the ...
The Scientist10y
Clean Wood = Fewer Insects
Infestation rates of bark- and wood-boring insects in wooden packing materials decreased by up to 52 percent from 2003 to 2009 after the implementation of International Standards for Phytosanitary ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN13d
What Happens to a Tree That Dies in a Forest?
Some even lie dormant in living trees, waiting for them to become stressed or die. Such fungi will extend their long hyphae ...
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Houseworks: Getting rid of wood insects
A The only reliable thing I know of is heat. For home workshoppers this can be a challenge when pieces of wood are longer than what can fit into a household oven. What you’re looking for is heat ...
Why You Should NEVER Disturb a Yellowjackets’ Nest
It happens to every homeowner at some point. You look up and see a yellowjacket nest hanging somewhere around your home. It’s ...
JSTOR Daily7y
Notes on Some Wood Engravers of North American Insects
Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Journal of the New York Entomological So... Journal of the New York Entomological Society Vol. 36, ...
Smithsonian Magazine13d
What Happens to a Tree That Dies in a Forest?
Such fungi will extend their long hyphae into openings in the wood—insect tunnels or water-transporting plant tissue—or forge their own pathways. White-rot fungi release aggressive enzymes ...