Common Furniture Beetle

Homeowners suspecting common furniture beetle activity such as the evidence of 1 8 holes in wood and frass sawdust piles created by common furniture beetle pupae boring through wood are advised to contact a professional pest control company.

Common furniture beetle. They have brown ellipsoidal bodies with a prothorax resembling a monk s cowl. As seen in the picture the common furniture beetles are small dark beetles. Reducing the wood to hollowed out trash in short order.

Wild wood is wet and subject to fungal and microbial attack so cfb can thrive within the timber. And international locations the common furniture beetle is called the woodworm. These beetles go through complete metamorphosis meaning this insect has an egg larval worm like pupal and adult stage.

Behavior diet habits life cycle. The major attraction for common furniture beetles is dampness or you can bring them home through untreated wooden products such as firewood. Its life cycle is completed in about one to three years depending on environmental conditions.

The thing is common furniture beetle its common generic name is happiest when infesting damp deadwood strewn over a forest floor rather than the dry stuff in houses. The common furniture beetle or common house borer anobium punctatum is a woodboring beetle in the larval stage it bores in wood and feeds upon it. It is not known why they seem ready to get into our homes but it is suspected there are certain scents or odors which lure them.

Not common household pests these wood boring insects require the attention of a trained. Understand the woodworm life cycle and the signs of infestation. These dark brown or black beetles are also called wood boring beetles or.

As its name suggests the common furniture beetle anobium punctatum can damage wooden structures and furniture. In many parts of the u s. For smaller pieces of infested wood that can fit in an oven exposing the beetles to temperatures of at least 50 c for at least 30 minutes may kill them.