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Wood affected by woodworm. Signs of woodworm usually consist of holes in the wooden item, with live infestations showing powder (faeces), known as frass, around the holes.. The size of the holes varies, but they are typically 1 to 1.5 millimetres (5 ⁄ 128 to 1 ⁄ 16 in) in diameter for the most common household species, although they can be much larger in the case of the house longhorn beet
Fragment of a broomstick affected by woodworm. Woodboring beetles are commonly detected a few years after new construction. The lumber supply may have contained wood infected with beetle eggs or larvae, and since beetle life cycles can be one or more years, several years may pass before the presence of beetles becomes noticeable.
In 2021, she published Carcoma (translated into English as Woodworm by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott in 2024). [7] This novel examines themes of gender-based and class-based violence through horror, set in the time of the Spanish Civil War . [ 8 ]
"Wormwood" itself is an alteration of Old English wermod, which is of obscure origin. [8] The German cognate Wermut is the source of the term vermouth , used in French and English to describe a kind of wine traditionally flavoured with wormwood.
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