They have brown ellipsoidal bodies with a prothorax resembling a monk s cowl.
Common furniture beetle male. As its name suggests the common furniture beetle anobium punctatum can damage wooden structures and furniture. These wood boring beetles consume. The common furniture beetle has a somewhat round black head and elongated body. Common furniture beetle or the anobium punctatum is the woodboring beetle.
These beetles go through complete metamorphosis meaning this insect has an egg larval worm like pupal and adult stage. The adults don t feed and only reproduce. Like the common house fly furniture beetles seem to know when doors or windows are open. Behavior diet habits life cycle.
Serricorne is around 2 3 mm long and brown in colour. The thing is common furniture beetle its common generic name is happiest when infesting damp deadwood strewn over a forest floor rather than the dry stuff in houses. Furniture beetle woodworm ptilinus pectinicornis male on bark of a maple germany bavaria a pice of bark from a tree infected with a bark beetle. It is not known why they seem ready to get into our homes but it is suspected there are certain scents or odors which lure them.
Furniture beetle or common house borer anobium punctatum. These beetles infest soft sapwood or the new growth timber. These dark brown or black beetles are also called wood boring beetles or house borers. Treating common furniture beetle infestations.
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. Within homes and other buildings the furniture beetle is an exceedingly common pest. These beetles are chocolate brown colored and have a covering of fine yellowish color. And international locations the common furniture beetle is called the woodworm.
The adults grow up to 2 7 4 5 mm. Its life cycle is completed in about one to three years depending on environmental conditions. Infestations can damage decorative woodwork musical instruments wooden tools and on a more serious scale wood flooring joinery and structural timbers. Lasioderma serricorne commonly known as the cigarette beetle cigar beetle or tobacco beetle is an insect very similar in appearance to the drugstore beetle stegobium paniceum and the common furniture beetle anobium punctatum all three species belong to the family ptinidae.
Inspecting crawl spaces wooden siding windowsills and any place moisture may be collecting in your older home can help avoid common furniture beetle infestations. They are also the cause of woodworm in many wooden items. Adult anobium punctatum measure 2 7 4 5 millimetres 0 11 0 18 in in length. Despite its name this beetle can invade more than just furniture.
Furniture beetle biology furniture beetles can fly so it is easy for them to get inside. Common furniture beetles will infest damp wood if given the opportunity. Wild wood is wet and subject to fungal and microbial attack so cfb can thrive within the timber.