fungus feeder or scavenger

5804    I live in Minnesota and have never seen this tiny super bright red beetle type bug that borrows little holes all over the place. I pulled this long out of my old 1800’s Catholic Church that rest on my farm. Weather right now is 75 and hardly any humidity. It Sept.19th 2016. And I wouldn’t have ever seen them but I wash old logs and restore them into useful objects. And while soaking log to the point of satcheration it forced them up out of the holes. Please tell me what they are and how to get rid of these before I lose a very old sacred place. My great great great great grandfather built. Now converted into log storage. Thank you!

This does not resemble any of the wood-boring/damaging beetles that I am familiar with; I rather suspect that it might be either a fungus feeder or scavenger. Just because an insect is found in a hole does not mean that it made it. Ed Saugstad, retired entomologist; Sinks Grove, WV.