Woodpile-ists – What has infected my precious wood???

So been spitting and the bark has been dropping off with a big pile of dust and the wood is riddled with holes and I found this little beastie..

What the hell is it? Cause these are going through the entire wood stock like a pillar drill creating 7-8mm holes

Obviously I’m not keen on bringing any of these things inside to have a pop at my joists / floor boards but worried I may have already earlier in the year when the may have been much tiny-ier

Obviously I will kill it with fire but maybe not in my house!

No idea what they are but since they’re eating under the bark, some kind of bark beetle, I guess. I get loads of bark beetles in my wood – bark drops off with annoying powder.

However you don’t need to worry about joists etc. Whatever they are they won’t be flying about laying eggs ’till April.

The guilt of cremating them alive in their homes I can’t help you with.

Could be a cardinal beetle larva looking for food in the wood rather than making the holes themselves.

Could be a cardinal beetle larva looking for food in the wood rather than making the holes themselves.

I’m pretty sure the OP is describing a bark beetle purely because it’s eaten enough under the bark for the bark to drop off in a pile of dusk. No idea which one there are thousands of them.

I thought I’d found Oak Jewell Beetle in some Oak and reported it. Turned out to be something completely different, but I couldn’t tell the difference! After that I gave up on identification and just consider them all ‘bark beetles’.

Be good if someone on here is knowledgeable enough to pin it down.

Some sort of beetle larvae, bit of googling suggests eyed click or stag possibly but theres a lot of similar looking larvae till they hatch. If they refuse to die and just persist in annoying you it’s probably McCartney though.

If they refuse to die and just persist in annoying you it’s probably McCartney though

You only get them in Norwegian Wood

You only get them in Norwegian Wood

I’m pretty sure they’ve been in moorland shrub processing plants all over the world before now.

whoosh

Well I thought it was a good one! Entirely missed?

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I think the bird has just flown
So Bigdaddy you’re not alone
It was pretty good, Norwegian wood.

As with any bugs, once the wood is dry they will probably go as most don’t like dry wood. As for bringing in, I worry about people with attractive wood pile walls a little (although it is dry so…). But I don’t fret about bringing in 2 to 3 days worth.
For now, your wood pile is good for the garden habitat. Bugs in it feed the birds…. Seen a woodpecker in my shed a few times…. And I’m South London so not exactly rural. Despite the woody I’ve brought 10 wasps into the house so far this burn season!

Think it’s the cardinal thing

So that doesn’t solve the mystery of whats making the holes.

Hmmmmm.

whereabouts are you OP?

No idea about the bug but was interested if it was a southern thing?

Heathrow / Windsor

I’ve just finished splitting the last of a big load of oak this morning – lots of these little buggers about, all in lovely little round holes. I pulled all the loose bark off and made a heap just away from the splitter, which kept a local robin quite happy.

Longhorn Beetle?

I think the problem is that you’ve cut your logs at 27.1cm, rather than 29cm. Everyone knows 29cm logs are like sooooo much better.

You only get them in Norwegian Wood

#pedantalert – George, not Paul…

#pedantalert. You mean Lennon (with perhaps a bit of Paul)