Hello,

That little worm that gets in there when the eggs hatch loves beech, and will destroy it in short order eating right through to the other side. I'm surprised to see beech used for building for just this reason. Here, its eating away some old molding planes out in the workshop right now, the good ones I put in the freezer for 4 weeks. The enemy is moisture, so maybe better to put the wood where it can get a bit of wind blowing through and stay dry. Storage always seem to be risky with wood. In storage it will get infested where it otherwise would not. To me that says there is a connection to the bug life and a static condition. I suspect moisture.

Greetings,

Don Wagstaff