IDK fellas, insect exterminators will tell you not to keep wood near your house. And to keep it up off the ground. It will attract carpenter ants and if on the ground, termites.
Carpenter ants and other boring insects, like the cerambycid family and maybe commonly known as Longhorn Beetles, actually help the wood season, though it seems like they eat it all up, looking at all the sawdust they create. But the problem with carpenter ants is they will migrate to your house. And you don't want them in your house.
In the spring, when weather conditions are just right, some of the queens in a carpenter ant colony will fly away to start new colonies. There has to be light wind, right air temp. I had a colony in the eave of my house last year and watched this happen one afternoon.
And I don't bother to cover my wood pile. The very outside may get wet from rain, but its not going to soak the wood. I want the sun hitting the wood.