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  2. Woodworm - Wikipedia

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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

  3. How To Get Rid of Ants From Your Home With 4 Simple Tricks - AOL

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    Clean Like Crazy. Ants are attracted to crumbs, spills, and sticky messes. To keep them away, keep the kitchen as clean as possible. Dirty dishes left in the sink can attract ants and all sorts of ...

  4. Carpenter ant - Wikipedia

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    Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants (workers 7 to 13 mm or to in) indigenous to many forested parts of the world. [4] They build nests inside wood, consisting of galleries chewed out with their mandibles or jaws, preferably in dead, damp wood. However, unlike termites, they do not consume wood, [5] but instead discard a material ...

  5. Common furniture beetle - Wikipedia

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    The common furniture beetle or common house borer (Anobium punctatum) is a woodboring beetle originally from Europe [1] but now distributed worldwide. In the larval stage it bores in wood and feeds upon it. Adult Anobium punctatum measure 2.7–4.5 millimetres (0.11–0.18 in) in length. They have brown ellipsoidal bodies with a prothorax ...

  6. Pest (organism) - Wikipedia

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    Pest (organism) Varied carpet beetle larvae, Anthrenus verbasci, damaging a specimen of Sceliphron destillatorius in an entomological collection. A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns. The term is particularly used for creatures that damage crops, livestock, and forestry or cause a nuisance to people, especially in their homes.

  7. Termite - Wikipedia

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    The infraorder name Isoptera is derived from the Greek words iso (equal) and ptera (winged), which refers to the nearly equal size of the fore and hind wings. [15] " Termite" derives from the Latin and Late Latin word termes ("woodworm, white ant"), altered by the influence of Latin terere ("to rub, wear, erode") from the earlier word tarmes.

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