Name/Title
Petrified Wood Donation - Insect Damage (3)Entry/Object ID
A2025.12.3Description
(1)
F1170 Acacia (Sam's Valley, Jackson Co., OR, Payne Cliffs Fm., mid-Eocene)
A chunk of Acacia with insect bore holes filled with petrified frass
F2671 Yellow-Poplar / Liriodenron (Zimmerman Ranch dig site, McDermitt, OR)
half a round branch with bug hole voids front and back
F1411 Sequoia (Eagle Point, OR)
a chunk cut on 3 faces; burrowing beetles created initial holes which fungal decay enlarged so the holes are no longer regularly shaped. The vertical line of white cut pieces of wood (sawdust-like) is from the beetles. The beetles carried in fungal spores which caused the fungal rot.
F2471 Yew (Badger Flats, Sheldon NWR, Washoe Co., NV, Trout Creek Fm., mid-Miocene)
Most of a round, the outside has three insect bore holes.
F5024 Willow (Eagle Point, OR)
a compressed round with one beetle bore hole
F2440 Basswood (Zimmerman Ranch dig site, McDermitt, OR)
a small round with two deep beetle bore holes on one side
F212 Tropical Dicot (Eden Valley, WY)
and elongated round with several beetle bore holes on one side.
F1261 Birch (Eagle Point, OR)
a butt cut round branch with extensive pin hole beetle damage
F5038 NWPID? Eagle Point, OR, Roxy Fm., early Oligocene)
a badly decayed chunk with a multitude of pin hole beetle burrows
F607 Sequoia (Eagle Point, OR, Oligocene)
a stand up chunk with a great multitude of pin hole beetle burrows
F1488 Pecan (Western United States, Cenozoic)
"Shot hole boring beetles"; a chunk cut on two faces. Part of the outside is heavily and deeply pitted - those parts of the two faces near the outside pitting have sporadic pitting caused by shot-hole boring beetles (identification and damage described by Walt Wright).
F4806 Cherry (McDermitt, OR)
a round with two deep cracks and many beetle tunnels showing on the face. The outside has six insect borings
F1255 Spruce (Pink Twig site, Grassy Mtn., OR, Succor Crk. Fm., mid-Miocene)
most of a round with beetle larvae boring, two of which are filled with beetle droppings (petrified cellulose)
F4553 Schinoxylon (Eden Valley, WY)
a round branch with many beetle tunnels filled with petrified frass and desiccation crack, partially filled with yellow calcite.
(2)
F2791 Sycamore (Post, OR, Clarno Fm., Eocene)
a half round with bark beetle borings on the outside of limbs
F2790 Sycamore (Post, OR, Clarno Fm., Eocene)
a round with bark beetle borings on the outside of limbs
F1007 Sycamore (Post, OR, Clarno Fm., Eocene)
a round with bark beetle borings on the outside of limbs
F4554 Pepperwood (Eden Valley, WY)
a butt cut from a round branch with many beetle tunnels, most filled with frass
F2567 Pepperwood (Eden Valley, WY)
a butt cut slab from an elongated round branch with beetle tunnels
F2043 Pepperwood (Eden Valley, WY)
most of a round with a multitude of exterior bore holes from shot hole beetles (Euwallacea fornicatus)
F926 Shrub (Zimmerman Ranch dig site, McDermitt, OR)
shot hole beetle holes on one side
F3564 Cherry (Airport dig site, McDermitt, OR)
a round with many wide and deep interconnected tunnels that are termite galleries (large termites due to amount of wood missing) along with multitude of tiny holes where "shot hole borers" (small beetles) dug into the wood.
F1431 Larch (Sweethome, OR)
a chunk with termite galleries, many partially filled with ball-shaped termite droppings (petrified cellulose that termites roll into balls then remove to waste storage galleries); also tiny holes in the wood from "shot-hole borers" (small beetles)
F424 Pine (Eagle Point, OR)
a round with extensive termite tunnels and corridors, many filled with termite frass
F3714 Basswood (Sweethome, OR, Oligocene)
slab from a slightly elongated round with several oval beetle burrows
F481 Acacia (Sweethome, OR, Tehama Fm., Oligocene)
an elongated round with beetle larvae burrows
F556 Pepperwood (Eden Valley, WY, Bridger Fm., Eocene)
a slab from round with beetle burrows filled with petrified frass
F557 Pepperwood (Eden Valley, WY, Bridger Fm., Eocene)
a slab from a round with beetle burrows filled with petrified frass and one lateral burrow opening
F3699 Pepperwood (Eden Valley, WY, Bridger Fm., Eocene)
a slab from an elongated round with beetle borings of two different sizes, with the largest measuring 3/16" wide
(3)
F1272 Black Locust ("Opal Green Dig Site", McDermitt, OR, Trout Crk. Fm.)
a slab from an opalized round with beetle bore holes, some filled with petrified frass
F3969 Cherry (Airport dig site, McDermitt, OR)
a round with open termite galleries
F249 Birch (Airport dig site, McDermitt, OR)
most of a round with empty termite gallery and pin hole beetle holes on one side
F4995 Cherry (Airport dig site, McDermitt, OR)
a round with empty termite gallery
*F4814 Tan Oak (Devaney Camp, Sheldon NWR, Washoe Co., NV)
partial round with eleven void termite galleries
*F281 Black Locust (Grassy Mtn., OR, mid-Miocene)
a round with open termite gallery through and through
*F381 Spruce (Green Top Mtn. Roxy Fm.)
an elongated round with one 1/2" open termite gallery
*F3946 Conifer (Eastern WA, Basalt Fm., mid-Miocene)
most of a round with a through and through open termite gallery
*F3987 Bald Cypress (Olympic Peninsula, WA)
a chunk
*F2562 Conifer (Kennedy Range, W. Australia, Windalia Radiolarite Fm., Lower Cretaceous)
a non-round slab bored by "ship worms" (ie. teredo worms, a marine bivalve mollusk that bores tunnels into sunken wood for shelter and sustenance)
*F260 Northern White Cedar / Thuja (Eastern Washington, mid-Miocene)
a partial round with damage caused by woodpeckers or saps suckers (bird)
*F2551 Honey Locust (Opal Green dig site, McDermitt, OR, Trout Crk. Fm.)
a butt cut round encased in petrified algae; face has many bug holes.
*F4465 Tropical Dicot (Eden Valley, WY
a somewhat compressed round with petrified algae on the exterior and many beetle larvae tunnels filled with petrified frass
*F148 Conifer (West side of Olympic Peninsula, WA)
a V- cut butt cut slab with ship worm damage
