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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. 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.

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  5. Category:Woodboring beetles - Wikipedia

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  6. Shipworm - Wikipedia

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    When shipworms bore into submerged wood, bacterial symbionts embedded within a sub-organ called the typhlosole in the shipworm gut, aid in the digestion of the wood particles ingested, [3] The Alteromonas or Alteromonas-sub-group of bacteria identified as the symbiont species in the typhlosole, are known to digest lignin, and wood material in ...

  7. Rosalia funebris - Wikipedia

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    They are found in western North America, from Alaska through California, and in New Mexico. [1] The banded alder borer may be found in the spring and summer on the bark of alder trees. The exact reason is unknown, but R. funebris is drawn to recently painted buildings and may be found, in multitudes, resting on the paint.

  8. Bookworm (insect) - Wikipedia

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    Some such larvae exhibit a superficial resemblance to worms and are the likely inspiration for the term, though they are not true worms. In other cases, termites , carpenter ants , and woodboring beetles will first infest wooden bookshelves and later feed on books placed upon the shelves, attracted by the wood-pulp paper used in most commercial ...

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    Jace Tunnell carefully holding a bearded firework, pointing at its dozens of pain-inducing bristles. (Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies) Surfers beware: Bearded fireworms ...