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  2. Common furniture beetle - Wikipedia

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    Woodworm holes and burrows exposed in wooden floorboard. The first step in pest control is prevention. Particularly important in this respect is to keep the timber dry - below 16% moisture content. A relative humidity within the building above 60% may lead to an infestation, and timber moisture content below 12% is too dry for an infection to ...

  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.

  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. This insect could kill your Kansas lawn. Here’s what to do ...

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    According to Raymond Cloyd, entomology professor at Kansas State University, there was a bad infestation of fall armyworms in Kansas in 2022. “They caused substantial damage, entire lawns and ...

  6. Ptinidae - Wikipedia

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    The larvae of a number of Ptinidae species tend to bore into wood, earning them the name "woodworm" or "wood borer". Several species are pests, causing damage to wooden furniture, house structures, tobacco, and dried food products.

  7. Can condo association force owner to address bedbug infestation?

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    Residents are itching to know how they can quell condo neighbor's bedbug infestation: Ridding the place of bugs can be expensive and difficult. Our expert weighs in.

  8. Lung Cancer Researcher Diagnosed with Stage 4 Disease ... - AOL

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    Dr. Bryant Lin, a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer despite never smoking "I never would’ve thought that I would have this cancer ...

  9. Deathwatch beetle - Wikipedia

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    However, infestation by these beetles is often limited to historic buildings, because modern buildings tend to use softwoods for joists and rafters instead of aged oak timbers, which the beetles prefer. To attract mates, the adult insects create a tapping or ticking sound that can sometimes be heard in the rafters of old buildings on summer nights.