Wood Borer Species

Appearance

• Adult beetle is 10–25 mm in length. 
• Black/brown colour with greyish hairs and 2 black spots on thorax which resemble eyes. 
• Larva is greyish white in colour and can grow up to 35 mm when fully developed.

Habits

• Female lays eggs in cracks and crevices of wood. 
• Larva tunnels between sapwood and bark; subsequently moves deeper into the wood as it matures. 
• Larva creates a hole before it pupates and leaves wood fibres out of the hole. 
• Often found infesting dying trees or abandoned logs.

Appearance

• Adult beetle is 3 – 4mm in length.

Lifecycle

• Larva will live for 3 - 5 years boring through timber before emerging to breed.

Habits

• They actively fly in warm sunny weather. 
• Within homes and other buildings the furniture beetle is an exceedingly common pest. 
• Despite its name this beetle can invade more than just furniture. 
• Infestations can damage decorative woodwork, musical instruments, wooden tools and on a more serious scale wood flooring, joinery and structural timbers. 
• These wood boring beetles consume hardwoods and softwoods.