I've been finishing several rather buggy box elder (ash maple) bowls, and the ambrosia beetles holed up in their tunnels have been dropping out all over the place, some dead, some still alive. I'm getting tired of crunching them under my fingernails, and wonder if there is an effective way of getting them all either out, or dead in place. I'm planning to show and sell these bowls and others at our community's annual meeting next week, and I'd hate to include these beetles as unwanted stowaways.

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Which raises another question: besides being live bugs, which few people like to have in their living rooms, are there any risks that they could set up housekeeping in someone's furniture or wood structure? I'm assuming they have a fairly narrow ecological niche, but I don't know.

Thanks!

Robert