If people say they have carp and grants, I say that they have a moisture problem and they

probably need to kind of look into that.

And once they fix that, usually that takes care of the carbon grant issue.

Of course, there's some exceptions because it's biology and it's always complicated.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry

professionals. This is Senior Editor of Patrick McComb. Today I'm joined by Dr. Rachel Arango,

research entomologist with the U.S. Forest Service.

You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original Fine Homebuilding podcast

at finehomebuilding.com slash podcast. You can leave Fade back and ask questions there too.

Dr. Rachel, thank you so much for joining me. It is a pleasure to have you here.

Thanks. I'm really excited to be here. So are you guys able to work, you work in a lab in Wisconsin,

that's correct? Yeah, I do. Are you able to go to work normally or have you had to change

things up where you work? We've changed things up a bit. I go in maybe once or twice a week. We kind of have staggered

our schedules so that we're not running into lots of people. But I've been mostly working at

home trying to get some writing done, which is good. Do you like the arrangement, or would you

rather be in the office all the time? I don't mind so much.

If I had my choice, I'd be running around in the woods all the time looking at bugs.

But I like a balance of a lab and office and it's been mostly productive.

So I think it's been good, but I'm excited to get back at some point.

Yeah, me too.

Folks who watch the show on YouTube or on our podcast page might notice that I'm back in

our studio, which has been not the case for months.

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