You have a log cabin, you like the rustic look, clean and fresh. You notice pin holes appearing on the wood surface and a powdery sawdust trickling down the rough surface of the wood on to your Flying Canvasback Wall Mount. You have powder Post beetle and they are second to termites. They damage the wood from the inside out. They infested the tree when it was still standing or in the lumber yard.
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Powder post Beetle have four stages of growth, egg, larva, pupa and adult. The adult beetle is 1/12 to 1/5 inch long and seldom seen. It is the larva that does the damage, they are after the starch content of the wood. The less starch in the wood, the more tunneling the larva does. After many months of tunneling and feeding on the starch the larva will migrate and pupate just below the surface of the wood. After a matter of days or weeks depending on temperature the adult will emerge from its pupa case and chew a tiny exit hole, leaving more powdery sawdust on your Flying Wood Duck Wall Mount. The male and female will mate, the male dies and the female penetrates the pores of the wood with its ovapositor, deposits eggs, larva emerge from the eggs and the process starts all over again.
Normally you would spray the surfaces of the infested area with a residual insecticide to the point of run-off and only in areas that were not living spaces. In homes that have wall coverings i.e. sheetrock, you will not get these infestations unless its in the beams of the cellar or crawl area that are not covered or finished. Years jackpot slot resmi back we would use insecticides such as Chlordane, Lindane and Dursban just to name a few but they have long been banned. In order to control or eliminate the powder post beetle you have to treat all the surfaces of the infested area.
Using insecticide in the living spaces (bedrooms, kitchen, living room) of log cabins and other rustic, country dwellings that have natural wood finishes is not advisable.You want to keep that natural rustic, country home look. This can be done by applying a clear sealer i. e. polyurethane gloss, semi-gloss or satin finish. The satin finish does not shine as much as the gloss or semi-gloss and may give a more natural look. Its just like painting a room and its probably the closest your going to get to keeping that natural look. Once the finish is applied it will continue to emerge for many months until they are all out. The female cannot penetrate the sealed pores of the wood with its ovapositor thus interrupting the next generation of beetles.
You can use insecticide on the outside if you want to. If it already has a finish, the application is not necessary. One of the newer powder post beetle insecticides is called Tim-Bor. This can be purchased at your local "Do-It-Yourself Pest Control" store, if you are lucky enough to have one. If not, this is a chance to get rid of some insecticide concentrate that has been sitting on the shelf. If you have a residual concentrate i.e. Chlordane, Lindane, Dursban or some other insecticide labeled for powder post beetle, use it. Make sure you read the entire label and follow all safety and hazard warnings.
To avoid splash back, spray the raw wood at low pressure to the point of run-off with diluted insecticide. In high areas a ladder may be useful. Do not spray on windy days to avoid drift. When spraying overhead wear rubber gloves, a hat, glasses and a respirator to avoid breathing in air bound particles. The average 24 ft. x 40 ft. home will take about 3 gallons of diluted material. If you have some diluted insecticide left over, keep spraying until it is all gone. Keep children and domestic pets out of the area during the application and until dry (4 to 5 hours depending on weather conditions).
Van Gogh Café Terrace at Night, also known as the Place du Forum, it is a coloured oil painting produced by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in Arles, France, mid-September 1888. The painting was not signed, but described and mentioned by the artist in his letters on various occasions. There is also a large pen drawing of the composition which originates from the artist's estate.
In a letter Van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo, the artist said Ginoux had taken so much of his money that he'd told the cafe owner it was time to take his revenge by painting the place.
In August 1888 the artist told his brother in a letter:
Today I am probably going to begin on the interior of the café where I have a room, by gas light, in the evening. It is what they call here a "café de nuit" (they are fairly frequent here), staying open all night. "Night prowlers" can take refuge there when they have no money to pay for a lodging, or are too drunk to be taken in.
In the middle of September 1888, Van Gogh sat up for three consecutive nights to paint the picture, sleeping during the day. Little later, he sent the water-colour, copying the composition and again simplyfing the colour scheme on order to meet the simplicity of Japanese woodblock prints.
Van Gogh's Cafe Terrace at Night, showing outdoor tables, a street scene and the night sky, was painted in Arles at about the same time. It depicts a different cafe, a larger establishment on the Place du Forum
Van Gogh wrote many letters to his brother Theo van Gogh, and often included details of his latest work. The artist wrote his brother more than once about The Night Café. According to Meyer Schapiro "there are few works on which [Van Gogh] has written with more conviction."
In one of the letters he describes this painting:
I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green. The room is blood red and dark yellow with a green billiard table in the middle; there are four lemon-yellow lamps with a glow of orange and green. Everywhere there is a clash and contrast of the most alien reds and greens, in the figures of little sleeping hooligans, in the empty dreary room, in violet and blue. The blood-red and the yellow-green of the billiard table, for instance, contrast with the soft tender Louis XV green of the counter, on which there is a rose nosegay. The white clothes of the landlord, watchful in a corner of that furnace, turn lemon-yellow, or pale luminous green. "
The next day (September 9), he wrote Theo: "In my picture of the Night Café I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad or commit a crime. So I have tried to express, as it were, the powers of darkness in a low public house, by soft Louis XV green and malachite, contrasting with yellow-green and harsh blue-greens, and all this in an atmosphere like a devil's furnace, of pale sulphur. And all with an appearance of Japanese gaiety, and the good nature of Tartarin.
He also wrote: "It is color not locally true from the point of view of the stereoscopic realist, but color to suggest the emotion of an ardent temperament."
The violent exaggeration of the colours and the thick texture of the paint made the picture "one of the ugliest pictures I have done", Van Gogh wrote at one point. He also called it "the equivalent though different, of The Potato Eaters", which it resembles somewhat in its use of lamplight and concerns for the condition of people in need.
Soon after its execution, Van Gogh incorporated this painting into his Décoration for the Yellow House.