Beetles bugging your hardwood?

IA' ITH TH.E INCREASING

UU importation of hardwood from tropical countries, losses in recently seasoned lumber and semi-manufactured products from damage done by the powder post beetles in the family Lyctidae is in the millions of dollars annually.

Although the problem can exist with the domestic species as well as imports, tropical climates such as Africa, Asia and South America are ideal breeding grounds for the pests. Detection of the beetles which attack the wood while it is stored unprotected in the open prior to processing and shipping is extremely difficult because there is no outward sign of infestation for at least a year or more.

Infestation occurs when the female beetle inserts her eggs into pores below the wood surface. These become larva within one to three weeks and the damage begins as the tiny larvae eat through the wood creating a series of wandering tunnels of gradually increasing diameter as they grow. In several months or sometimes as long as a year, the mature larva makes the transformation to the pupal stage near the wood surface. Within two to three weeks, it becomes an adult beetle and chews a small circular hole to emerge from the wood.

The length of the developmental process is dependent upon the starch content of the wood, moisture and temperature. Hardwoods are prime targets because the sapwood has high starch content. Since little or no growth occurs in wood with less than 3olo starch, softwoods are immune. Starch content drops as wood ages, thus making new wood in storage, manufacture or transportation most susceptible.

Since the eggs enter the wood through pores, ring porous hardwood such as ash, oak and walnut with Iarge-diameter pores are readily infested. Large pore tropical hardwood such as banak, obeche and lauan/meranti also are vulnerable. Diffuse-porous hardwood such as basswood and maple are generally immune.

Cargo containerization complicates the problem because it restricts quarantine inspection at ports of entry. The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) considers the lyctid beetle to be either established or impossi- ble to quarantine and allows infested wood to enter the United States without treatment.

Infestation is rarely discovered until the adult beetles emerge leaving small circular-flight holes on the surface. Other possible indications are piles of borer dust (frass) from larval activity. Sighting of adult beetles at lights and on the wood also is indicative. When infested wood is sawed, frass-filled larval tunnels are exposed.

Incoming shipments of hardwood lumber, plywood, and unfinished products should be inspected for beetle activity. Shipments with known or suspected infestation should be rejected or treated. Hardwood kiln-dried according to kiln-dried schedules should be requested when new stock is ordered. Precautions taken during storage should include semiannual inspections for wood in open storage and more often for wood in heated buildings.

Additionally, first in/first out stock rotation and the use of softwood piling sticks and pallets will reduce danger of attack. High standards of cleanliness are essential since piles of hardwood scrap can become breeding grounds.

Control of active lyctid beetles is possible with kiln sterilization or fumigation. Heat sterilization is effective for wood not yet manufactured while fumigation is preferred for wood products. Since neither

Lyctid Beetle

offer protection against reinfectation, it is sometimes necessary later to treat the surface with aPplications of liquid insecticides.

Withtwo other beetle groups responsible for damage in recently seasoned hardwoods, it is necessary to identify thelyctid beetle. Ambrosia beetles (Scolytidae and Platypodidae) attack dying trees, drying logs, and green lumber. Their larval tunnels are made before wood is milled and are cut at variable angles during processing. Since lyctid flight holes are made after milling, they are always perpendicular to the surface.

The false powder post beetle in the family Bostrichidae attacks bamboo and lays eggs in wood with attached bark, although some tropical bostrichids bore into bare wood. Their holes and tunnels are larger than the lyctid's and their frass is coarser and more tightly packed into tunnels.

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TOWARD $50 MILLION

We would like to take this opportunity again, to thank you for the outstanding article on our company. We have had many customers call us, and all have stated how well the article projects the Parr Lumber image.

We will continue to be gratefully indebted to you and your magazine as we grow to reach our sales projection.

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P.O. Box 989 Chino, Ca 91710

Steam Schooners

The Merchant Magazine July issue containing Gage McKinney's dandy story on the old steam schooners (see p.l4) was received with much pleasure.

I have read a lot of material on steam schooners, and even written a few items myself. It is a rare thing to pick up something new in the way of information, as a rule, so I was pleased to find your article providing the exception.

This is the first time I have encountered any reference to Captain John W. Gage and I gather that you are a descendant. I have encountered only scant reference to the Beda and had assumed that she was built as a steamer in 1882. That is the date given in Ships qf the Redwood Coast and might be the date of conversion.

"The First Steam Schooner" is something I won't argue about but I know it wasn't the Newsboy in 1888 because by then all kinds of them had been built. I do know that both Celra and Surprise were launched as steam propellers in 1884 on the basis of photographic evidence and feel pretty certain the Laguna was likewise in I 882.

The Newporl, built in 1875, was a freighter with a shelter deck that could provide protection for general merchandise and carried very little exposed to the weather. When I was a small boy I remember the Newport rotting away on the Alameda. Ca.. mudflats near Barnes and Tibbett's shipyard. She may have been sold to some trusting souls during the early stages of World War I.

In l9l7 I saw a little shelter decked freighter being refitted at Hanlon's shipyard in Oakland. Her name was Hattie Gage and I wonder if you know anything about her, in view of the name.

Built in 1889, she was a cute little thing about 85' over all and only 80.82 gross tons. Hattie had, been sold to some South or Central American parties and the last I saw ofher was offthe coast of Central America in rather sloppy weather, plugging along with a couple of steadying sails to check some of the rolling.

Only in recent times I learned that she was employed in the San Francisco to Eel River run back in the days when there was some hope of competing with Humboldt Bay for the shipment of farm produce out of the fertile Eel River valley. A chancy business.

Bill Olsen

369 Santa Cruz St. San Pedro. Ca. 90731

West Coast Cargo

We enjoyed the recent article on the Pacific Coast lumber trading schooners Gee The Merchant Magazine, July, p. 14) and found it of extreme interest.

Relative to this subject you may find a similar interest in the introduction into this trade of our new specially designed vessel M. V. Douglas Fir.

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California Bunker'C' oil for the coastal pulp mills of British Columbia, this vessel is providing efficient service for lumber exporters from British Columbia into the Southern California market. She makes one round trip every l8-21 days. The usual port ofdischarge is Long Beach and Los Angeles while the oil cargo is loaded usually at San Pedro. The vessel has, however, made one trip into Port Hueneme,Ca., for Chandler Lumber.

This latest development in a historical trade is interesting in that possibly for the first time a unique vessel has been designed and built for this trade.

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THE "INFAMOUS'' WHO?

We have been avid readers of your magazine for a number of years.

We find all of your articles very informative and well written. However. in going over last months publicationcover to cover-we were very disap- pointed to find no mention, whatsoever. of the "lnfamous Ted Gilbert"! We hope you make up for this in future publications.

Sincerely,

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Charlynn Jennings Jess Grijalva

C.J. Wholesale Redwood Lumber Co. 430 S. Marshall St. Ef Cajon, Ca.92020

The Jennings will be pleased to learn their old .friend Ted Gilbert of Product Sales Co., Newport Beach, Ca., next plans a visit to Climax, Nv., to see that outstanding western lumberman Hugh Mungus o.f the Mungus-Fungus Forest Products Co., who plans a special tour o.f the cathedrallike groves of the Sequoia Canabis, that grow only in the special conditions.found in and around Climax. - ed.

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