A small brown beetle, the larva of which (the woodworm) bores holes in dead wood and causes considerable damage to old furniture and building timbers.
家具窃蠹，家具蛀虫
Anobium punctatum, family Anobiidae
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The life cycle is similar to that of the common furniture beetle but can take many years to complete.
In heated houses the conditions are thus not optimal for the survival of furniture beetles.
The wharf borer only attacks rotten wood and not sound timber but the furniture beetle can cause far more damage.
Poplar weathers very well but it can be attacked by the western cedar borer when it is growing and furniture beetles when seasoned.
The drugstore beetle is similar to the cigarette beetle and the furniture beetle in appearance but is slightly larger, more elongate, and has distinctly striated wing covers.
Reddish-brown furniture beetles, whose larvae are book worms, are wood-boring insects that infest neglected books stored in humid conditions.
Both furniture beetles and death watch beetles require a little more water than is generally found in a dry and well maintained building.
Preventative measures should be taken to protect any valuable wood product against the larvae of furniture beetles.
The biology of the common furniture beetle is similar to that of the Queensland pine beetle.
Damage by the furniture beetle is identifiable by a peppering of tiny holes in the surface of the wood.
Emerging adult furniture beetles will bore through this new surface to reach the outside, leaving new holes for you to spot.
Unlike many other wood boring insects, the common furniture beetle is as comfortable in sound timber as in decayed timber.
Attack by furniture beetle occurs in both sound dry timber and that which has been affected by fungal decay.
Timber can fall foul of insects such as the common furniture beetle and the deathwatch beetle, as well as from fungi such as dry rot and wet rot.
Despite being in the same family as the furniture beetle, it does not bore into wood.
The only one in the UK, the house longhorn, makes oval exit holes 3mm to 6mm wide, compared to 1.5mm for the familiar furniture beetle.
As the title suggests, the book also includes information on borers, powderpost beetles and furniture beetles, as well as fungal decay and defibration.
It is well documented that common furniture beetle mates and lays eggs down old tunnels, often well below the surface.
If precautionary treatments against furniture beetles are unnecessary in old buildings, then will they protect against fungus?
The sapwood is susceptible to attack by both the powder-post and common furniture beetles and logs and tress are liable to attack by forest longhorn or Buprestid beetles.