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It is important to keep bugs out of firewood. Termites infesting your firewood could find their way into your home. To keep bugs out of firewood, prevention is your best option. Store firewood properly and you will protect the wood and your house from ants, termites, beetles and other invasive bugs.
Step 1
Harvest living trees during the late fall or early spring, which allows the cut wood to dry before the winter and spring. Bugs, such as wood-boring beetles, are in the inactive development stage during those months. Firewood from dead trees is more likely to have diseases and infestations of bugs such as bark beetles.
Step 2
Remove the logs from the woods and split the wood as soon as possible. Wood that is not spilt with the bark intact is very attractive to wood-destroying bugs. The split wood should measure less than eight inches in diameter and less than four feet long. Once the wood is split into smaller pieces, the quicker it will
Step 3
Determine the location where you will store your firewood. Find a level spot outdoors in an open area that is as far away from your home as practical.
Step 4
Set up your cement blocks and pieces of wood to create a simple storage rack. Stack the firewood in loose piles on top of the two-by-fours. Allow an air gap of at least 10 inches between the ground and the firewood. dry, becoming less desirable for bugs.
Step 5
Cover your firewood with a large sheet of dark polyurethane plastic. Not only will this keep your wood dry, but it also will kill various stages of insects during the summer, as the area under the plastic will build up heat and evaporate the moisture needed for the bugs to survive. Ventilate the plastic cover if water vapor collects on top from the green, unseasoned wood.
Step 6
Bring only enough firewood into your home to be burned immediately. You may stack pieces closer to your home when the cold weather arrives, as long as your stack is on a rack, patio or deck and not on the ground.