Termites?

foxd · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:57 am

I split a culm the other day and had wood powder pour out of it. The culms looked like this and I hope it is termite damage, not powder post beetle or whater it is called. Does this damage look familiar to anyone else?

Alan_L · **Posted:** Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:13 pm

Can't help on the ID, but was this on a dead culm still attached to the plant, or a cane that you had drying somewhere?

foxd · **Posted:** Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:37 pm

Alan_L wrote:

Can't help on the ID, but was this on a dead culm still attached to the plant, or a cane that you had drying somewhere?

Dead cane that had been damaged when the big Walnut tree landed on it. Every chance I get I work on the mess.

Akumanubis · **Posted:** Wed Apr 11, 2012 9:11 pm

Most likely powderpost beetles. You can tell by the kind of D shaped holes on the exterior.

Termites tend not to have exit holes. They don't like exposure to the outside world.

Happy exterminating!

foxd · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:30 pm

Akumanubis wrote:

Most likely powderpost beetles. You can tell by the kind of D shaped holes on the exterior.

Considering that I'm in Southern Indiana, the idea that I have powderpost beetles is kind of scary. :shock:

For what it is worth I only found one cane like this.

needmore · **Posted:** Thu Apr 12, 2012 1:47 pm

Dan, powder post beetles are very common here, you nearly always find them in native lumber from the many local sawmills - you really have to watch for it. I actually had them once eating LONG channels in sheets of the blue rigid styrofoam sheathing :roll:

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