“…With the exception of a few buprestid, cerambycid, and anobiid species for which protracted development times have been reported in lumber with poor nutritional qualities (Haack & Slansky, ), the wood‐boring insects present in the United States or Canada have developmental times (from egg to adult emergence) of under 5 years (e.g., Baker, ; Furniss & Carolin, ; Wood, ; Alya & Hain, ; USDA‐Forest Service, ; Pershing & Linit, ,b; Haack & Slansky, ; Rykken & Hanson, ; Dodds & Stephen, ; Akbulut et al ., ; Barkbeetles.org, ; Witrylak, ; Bugwood.org, ; Akbulut & Stamps, ; Ciesla, ; Haack & Brockerhoff, ; CABI, ; Rabaglia, ). Because all the wood surveyed was 5 or more years old, any wood‐boring insects present in the wood at the time of manufacture could have completed their development, emerged (as adults), and left the wood boxes prior to the survey.…”