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2. Woodboring beetle - Wikipedia

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   Some beetles invade wood used in construction and furniture making; others limit their activity to forests or roots of living trees. The following lists some of those beetles that are house pests. Ambrosia beetle; Common furniture beetle; Deathwatch beetle; Flat-headed wood-borer; Powderpost beetle (Ptinidae, Bostrichidae) Old-house borer

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Hylotrupes - Wikipedia

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   The sole species, Hylotrupes bajulus, is known by several common names, including house longhorn beetle, old house borer, [1] and European house borer. [2] In South Africa it also is known as the Italian beetle because of infested packing cases that had come from Italy. [3] Hylotrupes is the only genus in the tribe Hylotrupini.

6. Lyctus carbonarius - Wikipedia

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   Lyctus carbonarius is a wood-boring beetle in the family Bostrichidae (formerly in the family Lyctidae, which is now a subfamily of Bostrichidae), commonly known as the southern lyctus beetle. It is a serious pest of hardwoods including ash, hickory, oak, maple and mahogany and can infest many products in the home including hardwood flooring ...

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.