Pest Control CT: Pesticides Spraying Firewood
Pest Control CT: Pesticides Spraying Firewood – Yes or No?
You should never spray pesticides on firewood that you intend to burn, especially indoors. You won’t find any pesticides labeled for use on wood that will be burned indoors, for good reason. Burning insecticide-treated wood in CT can release toxic fumes into your living area cause a potential health hazard.
There are lots of different insects that can make their home in a wood pile in CT. Some are there just temporarily seeking shelter; many pests spend the winter hiding under bark.
Other pests (wood-boring beetles, carpenter ants, termites) are actually tunneling into or feeding on the wood. Usually none of them are dangerous (with the possible exception of the black widow spider), and the damage done to the wood is insignificant. If you find a piece of firewood that is infested with wood-boring insects, simply discard it.
Here are some steps you can take before bringing the wood it your CT home:
1) The sooner wood is split, the quicker it will dry and be less likely to be infested.
2) Stack firewood up off of the ground and not directly against the house. Stack the wood in loose piles to dry more quickly.
3) Store wood under cover to keep it dry but leave an air space between the wood and the cover.
4) Bring only a few logs into your CT home at a time.
5) Rotate the wood pile. Don’t let a log remain on the bottom of the pile for more than a year.
6) Burn older wood first. Try not to carry over large amounts of wood from season to season.
Be reassured that any pests that end up inside from the firewood won’t survive long in the drier indoor air and aren’t going to infest wood in your CT home.
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