Woodworm

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Furniture Beetle, woodworm (Anobium punctatum)

The adult beetles are uniformly brown in colour and are between 4 and 6 mm in length.

The adult female beetles, which have emerged from the characteristic round emergence holes in timber, produce 20 eggs which are deposited on rough edges of timber, frequently the cut edges of finished timber. The larvae that emerge from the eggs after 3 to 4 weeks burrow into the timber and spend many months feeding on the wood, in fact, in many old dry timbers the life of the larvae may be many years.

The beetles attack both hardwoods and softwoods with a preference for the sapwood.

While feeding the larvae produce a fine sawdust. Just prior to pupation the larvae make their way to the surface of the timber.

Pupation takes 10 to 14 days and from the pupa emerge the adult beetles which gnaw through the thin layer of wood leaving the round emergence holes which are 1.5mm in diameter.

Adult beetles emerge from mid March onwards.

The damage caused to wood by the boring activity of the larval form of the furniture beetle is significant.

It can cause substantial structural damage leading to great financial loss.

CONTROL

Treatment consists of applying a proprietary woodworm fluid to infested timbers.

The use of public hygiene type insecticides is unlikely to give effective control.

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