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Wood Borer Species
Wood damaging pests can attack expensive antiques and even a building’s structural components. Knowing the type of wood boring beetles involved can help determine the most effective control methods.
Longhorn Beetle
(Cerambycidae)
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.
Powder Post Beetle
(Lyctus brunneus)
Appearance
- Adult beetle is flattened and elongated with 1–7 mm in length.
- Reddish to dark brown in colour.
- Larva is white in colour, slightly curved and can measure up to 5mm when fully developed.
- Newly hatched larva is straight, extremely slender and less than 1 mm long.
Lifecycle
- Under favourable condition, it takes 9–12 months to fully develop.
- Adult lives 1–3 months.
Habits
- Usually attacks wood that is dry, untreated with chemicals and rich in starch, namely Rubberwood, Ramin, Jelutong, Penarahan, Merbau and Kempas.
Common Furniture Beetle
(Anobium punctatum)
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.
Wood Borer Problem?
Know what to look out for to tell if you have a wood borer problem
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Wood Borer Problem?
Check the common signs like eggs or crumbling wood to see if you have a wood borer problem