You left the bark on because the Hessians left the bark on, but, would the
Hessians have sprayed with borates?  Ruth




At 3:00 PM -0500 12/4/04, Gabriel Orgrease wrote:
>Ruth Barton wrote:
>
>>It's not a good idea to leave the bark on logs used for building as it
>>attracts insects.  Ruth
>>
>>
>Ruth,
>
>Agreed, possibly... but in this case the bark would not have been
>removed by the Hessians and therefore the insect attractive little hut
>has bark.
>When we first went there on a warm sunny day to look at removing the old
>logs there was the most amazing assortment of different types of bees &
>wasps that I have ever seen.
>This last week all of the wood, some of it infested with powder post
>beetle & some w/ termites, with the exception of the new cedar was
>sprayed twice over with borates.
>
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