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  2. Woodboring beetle - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Monochamus scutellatus - Wikipedia

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    Wood-boring insects can degrade the wood aesthetically by boring holes, and also indirectly as vectors for fungi and nematodes which can cause structural damage. [ 5 ] Allison et al. [ 11 ] extrapolated information from one mill in southern British Columbia to suggest that wood-boring insects could cause an annual loss of US$43.6 million per ...

  4. Buprestis rufipes - Wikipedia

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    Buprestis rufipes, the red-legged buprestis, is a green metallic wood boring beetle native to southern and eastern United States in North America. Little is known about this beetle. It apparently inhabits dead or dying hardwood in its adult phase.

  5. 7 Bioluminescent Bugs That Light Up

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    Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. ... Metallic Wood-Boring Beetles. Metallic wood-boring beetles are known for their glossy iridescent ...

  6. Buprestidae - Wikipedia

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    Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some 15,500 species known in 775 genera. In addition, almost 100 fossil species have been described. [1]

  7. Powderpost beetle - Wikipedia

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    Wood preservatives can be used to prevent beetle infestation. Common treatments may use borate , and frequently structural fumigation . Items that can be infested by powderpost beetles include wooden tools or tool handles, frames, furniture, gun stocks, books, toys, bamboo, flooring, and structural timbers.

  8. Trichocnemis spiculatus - Wikipedia

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    As larvae they eat wood of dead and dying pines, [3] their host plants are mainly ponderosa pine and Douglas fir. [2] They lay eggs in bark crevices of these trees. [3] The larvae bore tunnels through the sapwood and heartwood. [3] They have a life cycle of several years long. [3]

  9. Deathwatch beetle - Wikipedia

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    This includes a number of subfamilies including Ptininae, the spider beetles which are mostly scavengers, Anobiinae, wood-boring beetles, and Ernobiinae, deathwatch beetles, also wood-borers. In 1912, Pic erected Ernobiinae for beetles previously classified under Dryophilini by Fall in 1905. White elevated this taxon to subfamily status in 1962 ...