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{{Short description|Wood-eating beetle larva}}{{about|the household pest|the record company and studios associated with Fairport Convention|Woodworm Records}}{{distinguish|Wormwood (disambiguation){{!}}Wormwood}}File:Holzwurm anobium punctuatum in hole.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|The common furniture beetlecommon furniture beetleA woodworm is the wood-eating larva of many species of beetle. It is also a generic description given to the infestation of a wooden item (normally part of a dwelling or the furniture in it) by these larvae.WEB,weblink Woodworm, Cambridge Dictionary, - the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Types of woodworm
Woodboring beetles with larvae commonly known as woodworm include:JOURNAL, Woodworm and its control, New Scientist, Hickin, N. E., 202â204, 4, 83, 19 June 1958, About three hundred different species of wood-boring beetles are known as occurring in our domestic woodwork indoors, but of these only seven are of frequent occurrence, and it is to the larval or grub stage that we apply the description 'woodworm'.,weblink {{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}WEB,weblink Woodworm Identification & Treatment,- Ambrosia beetles (weevils of the subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae)
- Woodboring weevils (Pentarthrum huttoni and Euophryum confine)
- Bark borer beetle or waney edge borer (Ernobius mollis)
- Common furniture beetle (Anobium punctatum)
- Deathwatch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum)
- House longhorn beetle (Hylotrupes bajulus)
- Powderpost beetle (Lyctus brunneus)
- Wharf borer (Narcerdes melanura)
Manifestation
(File:Holzwurm loecher.jpg|thumb|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 {{convert|1 to 1.5|mm|frac=128}} in diameter for the most common household species, although they can be much larger in the case of the house longhorn beetle. Adult beetles that emerge from wood may also be found in the summer months.Treatment
Depending on the species involved, woodworm infestation is generally controlled with insecticides. However, some woodworm conditions, such as those caused by the waney edge borer (Ernobius mollis), require no treatment at all because the insect will have been killed in the preparation of the wood.BOOK,weblink Hugh McArthur and Duncan Spalding, Engineering Materials Science: Properties, Uses, Degradation, Remediation, 2004, 978-1898563112, 449, Elsevier, Only active infestations require treatment, so it is important to ascertain whether an infestation is still active before treatment is carried out. It is also advisable to investigate and solve possible dampness issues, as dry wood is not usually affected, and wood that remains damp may be reinfected at a later date.Electrical insect killers, which attract and kill adult beetles before they can breed, may be used along with conventional chemical treatments to kill adult beetles before they can breed, but the effectiveness of such an approach is unknown.Freezing treatments are quite effective but are costly, take two to three weeks to work and may cause damage. Low-oxygen treatment is also effective but is costly and very time-consuming, taking as long as eight weeks to treat the problem.Consumption
In places such as Cambodia, South Africa, the Philippines{{YouTube|id=b_1RpILnIUM}}. Retrieved 2018-10-09. and Papua New Guinea, woodworms may be considered edible delicacies.{{dubious|date=September 2022}}{{CN|date=September 2022}}See also
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