[Jewelry making - Article 00125] - Re: [Orchid] Good wood for "shop stump"?

[Judy Willingham]

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    Hello bericho1, 	Very good point.  Thanks for offering info about
    the dry wood termite. 	I was not specific enough by simply saying
    North America in defining the type of termite "available" in nature. 
    Your variety - the dry wood termite - can be found in the United
    States in a narrow strip from Virginia, south to Florida, along the
    Gulf of Mexico and from Mexico to Northern California on the Pacific
    coast. We don't see them in Kansas unless they have been "imported."
     All we have to do is put the infested furniture outside to freeze
    during the winter and the termite is history.  There are some
    advantages to having cold winters! 

    	I was thinking New England when responding to the posting.  Thank
    goodness we in the northern areas do not have to deal with those dry
    wood termites or the Formosan subterranean termite.  Of course, we DO
    have carpenter ants and some carpenter bees - great little
    opportunists. Judy in Kansas, who has learned to eat crow while it's still warm :-).


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