Oxfordshire Woodland Group

Back in April 2013 I felled a 30 year old common ash tree and bucked this into 4 foot lengths with the intention for this to be be cleaved into bodging billets. In the event this, very heavy, fast grown ash appeared to have a grain that was considered to be a bit too course for making chair legs and hence the billets were relegated to become firewood.

Less than a month later piles of sawdust were seen on the surface of the bark of the billets and this appears to be caused by small beetles burrowing in the underside of the bark next to the cambium layer. There are many of these beetles and I wonder where they came from and worse will these take a nose dive into the wood or will they simply die out as the firewood dries out ?

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