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Woodworm Control
Woodworm Anobium punctatum (Degeer)
A woodworm is not a specific species. It is the larval stage of certain wood-boring beetles. The most common species of woodworm is the furniture beetle. Woodworm eat into timbers, often beams in lofts, and weaken the roofs structure. Weakened timbers then often need replacing at a great cost to the homeowner.
Occurs commonly outdoors, attacking dead tree trunks and branches,
fence posts and outbuilding door and window frames, and indoors in wood
in a variety of situations.
The adults of this wood-boring
beetle emerge from timber in the spring, and fly for mating and
distribution. Sometimes mating takes place on the wood from which the
female emerges, and here she immediately lays her eggs. The eggs are
pressed into cracks and crevices, frequently the open-end grain of sawn
and manufactured timber. An average of 30 eggs is laid per female and
usually in groups of 2 or 3. “-4 weeks later the eggs hatch, and the
larvae (woodworm) bore into the timber.
Throughout Britain the
common furniture beetle is a serious pest indoors both in structural
timbers and furniture. Polished wood surfaces are usually not attacked,
but even the best furniture has exposed joints and unpolished areas
unders drawers and in the joints of the frame
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