06-19-2011, 08:34 AM
Even choosing yellow cedar over red helps.... believe it or not, tallowwood (Eucalyptus microcorys), one of the Eucalyptus species up in the Hamakua forest, has been tested with high resistance (some even tests even show that it is toxic to the buggers.... Some of the test links are below...and there are a number of scientific papers on the subject...
But with all of the research I have done on "what wood is best", I have found that what is bad for termite might be OK with powder post beetles, and no wood seems to be terrible to the carpenter bee... and since all seem to enjoy it around our house... We are looking at Aluminum..... maybe even diamond plate (eat that you buggers! LOL!!)... cabinets.... still have some time (hopefully not tooo many more months... maybe this fall!) before we are to the stage of purchase... but I really do not want to "get the best" & find out it is a tasty meal for a critter I hadn't thought about...
THE LINK FOR THE UH TERMITE PROJECT:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~entomol/research/r_durable.htm
CTHAR termite link:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~entomol/pdf_files/hsp-3.pdf
But with all of the research I have done on "what wood is best", I have found that what is bad for termite might be OK with powder post beetles, and no wood seems to be terrible to the carpenter bee... and since all seem to enjoy it around our house... We are looking at Aluminum..... maybe even diamond plate (eat that you buggers! LOL!!)... cabinets.... still have some time (hopefully not tooo many more months... maybe this fall!) before we are to the stage of purchase... but I really do not want to "get the best" & find out it is a tasty meal for a critter I hadn't thought about...
THE LINK FOR THE UH TERMITE PROJECT:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~entomol/research/r_durable.htm
CTHAR termite link:
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~entomol/pdf_files/hsp-3.pdf