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How to safely bring a eaten tree into your home?

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Ищу жука, 06.05.2012 20:33

Hello, dear entomologists smile.gifWho will help, if not you ))).

We are vacationing in North Africa, in Morocco, in the forest we found a sooo cute little log, picturesquely eaten by bark beetles.
We want to take him home.
But the question torments me: could there not have been life inside, undesirable in our Russian city apartment?

There are thin patterned stripes, and there are also deep oval passages. In one of them, an insect has long been stuck and withered, I looked in the network - a faded motley bird.

We soaked the log overnight in a bath of shampoo and soap, so that all living things would drown and come up. But who knows...

How can I safely take it with me? And what to do with it at home?
Or better yet, leave it here... And the beautiful one is smile.gif

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06.05.2012 20:59, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

Without a photo, it's hard to recommend anything. I can't imagine a situation where Moroccan bark beetles / barbels would cause damage in our conditions. On the other hand, bringing tree - eating termites into the apartment is not the best option. Although they will probably die too.

06.05.2012 21:51, Dmitrii Musolin

that's why you advise people so irresponsibly?

this is completely illegal and unpredictably dangerous. of course, there may be larvae and pupae in a dormant state, which your shampoo is completely monopenisual, if you'll excuse my French... Decontaminate you can (or rather can not) - radiation, chemical. drugs, thermal. before processing (high temperature and freezing).

deep moves are barbels and zlatki. there are cases when beetles flew out of furniture after dozens of years.

it is unlikely that you will bring a new pest to Russia on one log, but termites are quite likely.

if they find it, they'll take it away at least.

06.05.2012 22:02, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

that's why you advise people so irresponsibly?


?


this is completely illegal and unpredictably dangerous.


of course, our customs will take whatever they want. And what can be "unpredictably dangerous"in a log? Except for termite flu, of course.


it is unlikely that you will bring a new pest to Russia on one log, but termites are quite likely.


Did I write something else?

PS. "termite flu" is a joke, Onishchenko hasn't invented it yet.

06.05.2012 22:10, Hierophis

Oh, come on, put your log for a week in the freezer of a regular refrigerator( it's not big, right))) ), there is somewhere approx. - 20C usually. This is Africa, and no one is used to such frosts there.
And if someone survives, then it is generally unclear what he is doing in Africa, and fate itself tells him to live in Russia smile.gif

09.05.2012 13:55, Bianor

Grinders, pretenders, hay eaters and other small evil spirits may well inhabit such a log.

09.05.2012 17:11, Коллекционер

and if you cook it? find some kind of basin or barrel, pour water and cook over the fire for half an hour, love all pomrut

09.05.2012 18:25, Zlopastnyi Brandashmyg

Then cook in a salt solution, as snags are prepared for aquariums-recipes on aquarists ' websites.

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