The most common form of woodworm beetle is the common furniture beetle.
Common furniture beetle wings. The common furniture woodworm beetle anobium punctatum is a wood boring beetle measuring 2 7 4 5mm in length and has a brown ellipsodial body with a pronotum resembling a monk s cowl. The beetles are attracted to light and fly in through open windows. They from one superfamily bostrichoidea along with the common furniture beetles death watch beetles spider beetles and others. This is one reason how carpet beetles get into homes.
Beetles are a group of insects that form the order coleoptera in the superorder endopterygota their front pair of wings are hardened into wing cases elytra distinguishing them from most other insects the coleoptera with about 400 000 species is the largest of all orders constituting almost 40 of described insects and 25 of all known animal life forms. Powderpost beetles are a group of 70 species of wood boring beetles from the family lyctinae. 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. They have brown ellipsoidal bodies with a prothorax resembling a monk s cowl.
These wood boring beetles consume. Infestations can damage decorative woodwork musical instruments wooden tools and on a more serious scale wood flooring joinery and structural timbers. A relatively small insect it is still capable of causing structural damage to your property. Black beetles in house with their picture common name and identifying details let s look in more detail as some of the most common black beetles you can find in your house.
Woodworm beetle 1 common furniture beetle. Within homes and other buildings the furniture beetle is an exceedingly common pest. Furniture beetle biology furniture beetles can fly so it is easy for them to get inside. Despite its name this beetle can invade more than just furniture.
If you see powderpost beetles borer beetles common furniture beetles or any other wood boring beetles or woodworms in your home you will need to treat your home with an insecticide labeled for wood boring beetles. Woodworm refers to the larvae of any wood boring beetle rather than one particular species. New species are discovered frequently. 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.
In the uk the most common are the common furniture beetle anobium punctatum deathwatch beetle xestobium rufuvillosum house longhorn beetle hylotrupes bajulus and powderpost beetle lyctus brunneus all invade and consume wood and then leave when they have reached maturity. See step 3 for how to treat wood. Adult anobium punctatum measure 2 7 4 5 millimetres 0 11 0 18 in in length. The treatment in step 4 will only knockdown beetles in the home and not beetles in the wood.