Wood Eating Beetles
The common furniture woodworm beetle Anobium punctatum is a wood boring beetle measuring 27-45mm in length and has a brown ellipsodial body with a pronotum resembling a monks cowl.
Wood eating beetles. Most wood-boring beetles feed on wood that has at least a certain amount of moisture. Since wood-eating insects prefer a little moisture in the wood they attack make sure any lumber you buy is kiln-dried. The most common form of woodworm beetle is the common furniture beetle.
Important species in the Northwest are Trypodendron lineatum and Gnathotrichus retusus. The wood-destroying insects can damage wood and other building materials in many different waysTermites carpenter ants and several powderpost beetles are the most important wood-destroying pests overall. The woodworms of all wood-boring beetles have white or cream-colored bodies with dark heads.
These beetles attack dead trees or freshly cut logs in the forests. Old house borer beetles also known as long-horned beetles prefer spruce pine and hemlock. Carpenter ants dont eat wood but their super-strong jaws can hollow out.
Spray and allow it to penetrate the wood. Unlike most wood boring insects ambrosia adults do the tunnelling in which they release spores and cultivate fungal gardens their only source of nutrition. Keep Moisture Levels Down.
Wood-boring beetles can ruin hemlock lumber. Annual Reviews in Microbiology 361 323-323. Check wood for exit holes before you take it home.
The term woodboring beetle encompasses many species and families of beetles whose larval or adult forms eat and destroy wood ie are xylophagous. Wood-boring beetles lay their eggs either on the surface or actually inside of wood. Woodboring beetles with larvae commonly known as.