Enviroguard Pest Guides
Woodworm
| Common Furniture Beetle (Anobium punctatum) Appearance • Adult - 3 to 6mm in length. Thorax is significantly humped concealing the head. • Larva - usually concealed in wood. |
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• Larvae live for 3 to 5 years boring through the timber before emerging as an adult to breed.
Infests both hardwoods and softwoods.• Flies actively in warm sunny weather.
Signs of woodworm activity include:
• Appearance of neat holes, 2mm across, in wooden surfaces.
• Tiny piles of wood dust under infested wooden structures.
Overview
The adult Furniture Beetle is a small brown insect. It lays eggs on rough, unpolished wood and the grubs bore straight down, leaving no trace until they emerge as adult beetles three or more years later. Woodworm is frequently introduced into the house in second-hand furniture, tea chests, etc., but the beetles can also fly in through a window from nearby dead trees. They attack floorboards, joinery and, more seriously, structural timbers such as rafters and joists. Other woodborers include the Death Watch Beetle, which infests only large old hardwood beams; and the House Longhorn, which is confined - for the moment to North West Surrey.
Read more at the British Pest Control Association.
See also Enviroguard Timber Treatment.
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