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General Forestry => Forest Education => Topic started by: caveman on September 30, 2015, 09:49:02 PM
I got a few pine logs a couple of weeks ago from a friend who cuts yard trees. Two of the worst logs were not stored in my pond until I need them but rather left to attract bugs that I use when teaching my FFA forestry students. Ips engraver beetles seem to get in the logs within a week or two of felling, wood borers will be close behind and sometime in the next week or so I expect the ambrosia beetles to show up. You should be able to see the blue stain fungi, the white fungi and y and h shaped galleries left by the ips, the larvae and the scooped out rear of the adult beetles, a medium sized pitch tube and maybe a wood borer.
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/22883/ips3~0.JPG)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/22883/ips2~0.JPG)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/22883/ips1.JPG)
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/22883/ips3.JPG)