Common Furniture Beetle Anobium Punctatum

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Common furniture beetle anobium punctatum. Extraction identification and. Anobium punctatum generally known as the common furniture beetle or woodworm has been perceived to be the main cause of damage to timber in the uk over the last 100 years during the last 50 years insecticidal treatments have been widely marketed and used to treat and preserve timbers in buildings thought to be at risk from this organism. Uksi anobium striatum sensu olivier 1790 non fabricius 1787 synonym sensu olivier 1790 non fabricius 1787. Female sex pheromone of the common furniture beetle anobium punctatum coleoptera.

Adult anobium punctatum measure 2 7 4 5 millimetres 0 11 0 18 in in length. 1 87 mb csiro scienceimage 1057 wood borer beetle anobium punctatum jpg 1 737 1 719. Common furniture beetle common furniture beetle anobium punctatum. Here is a video of typical woodworm that attacks timbers within homes causing potential structural damage.

This very common species is found throughout britain but is most common in the south and east. They have brown ellipsoidal bodies with a prothorax resembling a monk s cowl. 53 kb csiro scienceimage 1056 anobium punctatum beetles jpg 2 657 1 776. The common furniture beetle or common house borer anobium punctatum is a woodboring beetle in the larval stage it bores in wood and feeds upon it.

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