Author Topic: Do you fight these in Yew?  (Read 3354 times)

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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Do you fight these in Yew?
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2013, 04:19:42 am »
Very rarely see any bug marks in dead standing yew, only in sapwood.   I haven't had any problems with bugs in yew that I have cut.  Now Juniper on the other hand...lets just say I got my drawknife work out in the other day ::)
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Offline Tom Leemans

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Re: Do you fight these in Yew?
« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2013, 09:57:44 am »
Years ago on another forum, there was a discussion started by Dean Torges where he was talking about wood wasps getting into his big pile of osage logs. He was looking for a simpler solution than constantly going through his stash of wood, and spraying chemicals, etc. I believe he ended up taking someone's advise and throwing the logs in the pond. The bugs left them alone and the wood actually doesn't absorb a bunch of water and get spongy.