Furniture Beetle
Furniture Carpet Beetle Anthrenus Flavipes Leconte
File Furniture Beetle Woodworm Nh266 14571152136 Jpg
Furniture Beetles Facts Identification Control Prevention
Carpet Beetles Facts Identification Control Prevention
Posts Tagged Furniture Beetles Glenn Master Gardeners
Science Source Furniture Beetle Anobium Punctatum
Pest Advice For Controlling Furniture Beetles
Furniture Beetle Anobium Punctatum Stock Image C001 7676
Common furniture beetles will infest damp wood if given the opportunity.
Furniture beetle. Furniture beetles are one of the many wood boring beetles that are included in the powderpost beetle group of insects. The common furniture beetle or common house borer is a woodboring beetle. Furniture beetle infestations are more likely to be discovered because of the damage they do not because large populations are being found. Third the cycle of the furniture beetle enables them to have a built in defense mechanism against treatments.
They have brown ellipsoidal bodies with a prothorax resembling a monks cowl. A furniture beetle takes up to the three years to go through the four different life stages egg larva pupa and adult so those larvae could be chewing up your furniture for some time. The furniture beetle lives from eggs laid in cracks the larvae tunnel into timber and damage it before emerging as beetles to lay more eggs. Adult anobium punctatum measure 2745 millimetres in length.
For smaller pieces of infested wood that can fit in an oven exposing the beetles to temperatures of at least 500c for at least 30 minutes may kill them. Moist structural beams can attract these insects as well so crawlspaces are common sites for wood infested by these pests. How serious are furniture beetles. Inspecting crawl spaces wooden siding windowsills and any place moisture may be collecting in your older home can help avoid common furniture beetle infestations.
Larvae develop inside timber and exit once they mature moving into other areas of the home.