Common furniture beetle woodworm infestation.
Common furniture beetle woodworm. This common furniture beetle is by far the most common cause of damage encountered. 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. Its specialty is sapwood of softwood and european hardwoods. Likewise during the beetle flight season between may and october you could see live beetles as they emerge from the timbers.
Some are more prolific than others and each have variations in lifecycle preferred timbers they infest and extent of damage they can cause. Copyright brick tie preservation 2011 most of the time though remedial work involves replacement of the odd floorboard or two and a spray with a suitable hse approved insecticide. This woodworm beetle attacks softwood species of timber leaving 1 2mm exit holes. There are several species of woodworm beetles in the uk.
Life cycle of woodworm there are four stages of woodworm development. Adult anobium punctatum measure 2 7 4 5 millimetres 0 11 0 18 in in length. Egg larva pupa and adult beetle. The common furniture beetle is the most widespread across the uk.
The common furniture beetle anobium punctatum in situ. It generally prefers damp rather than dry wood and the grub will head for. They have brown ellipsoidal bodies with a prothorax resembling a monk s cowl. However death watch house longhorn and powder post beetles can also infest timbers.
The common furniture beetle is a brown winged beetle typically 3 4mm in length. 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. Adult wood boring beetles look different depending on their species. It is also a generic description given to the infestation of a wooden item normally part of a dwelling or the furniture in it by these larvae.