A woman is sounding the alarm on retail stores that sell wood furniture after she claims a decorative wood ladder she brought into her home was infested with powderpost beetles. “This is just a ...

BECKET — A local congregation is rallying the town to save its historic house of worship ravaged by a wood-boring bug. The 40-member First Congregational Church needs to raise $200,000 toward ...

My incoming email box this last month was full of questions about the powderpost beetle and its holes in kiln dried wood, and bamboo too. So let’s put everything we know about this pest in one place.

The bell in the First Congregational Church of Becket is in danger due to extensive damage from powderpost beetles in the timber-frame structure that supports the bell and belfry. The belfry that sits ...

A recent bug find in a section of imported bamboo furniture illustrates how invasive bugs from foreign lands can make their way into U.S. gardens. Ohio State University’s Butler County Extension ...