When you noticed a sprinkling of something that looked like sawdust on the floor by the door or in your wooden cupboards and cabinets and its drawers and discovered a few tiny round holes in the wood frame, your mind went to the obvious place: termites. Or maybe it could be carpenter ants?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While termites and carpenter ants are the wood pests that homeowners\ntypically hear the most about, they\u2019re not the only ones out there. One of the\nbiggest dangers to the wood in the home comes from a bug you\u2019d probably never\nguess: the wood-boring beetle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A beetle?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Wood borers are tiny beetles whose larvae feed extensively on the wood. The wood worms make tiny pin size holes on the surface of wooden furniture or surface while emerging. Those tiny holes which you see on wood surface are actually the exit -holes where the adult wood borer has left. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
These\nbeetles are known for boring small holes in wood both in inside and outside\nenvironments. They can be difficult to detect as they bore through the inside\nof a wooden window and door frames, hardwood floors, and even wooden furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They are also referred to as \u2018Powderpost beetles\u2019 since they reduce wood to a flour-like powder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recent news reported is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Demolition\nof Church Street historic home raises concerns<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
By\u00a0Sean Flynn<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NEWPORT\n\u2014 The demolition of the historic home at 46 Church St., built in 1779, is\nreceiving a lot of public comment on a local website, much of it negative, but the\nproject went through a public process involving the city\u2019s Historic District\nCommission, the historic preservation planner and building officials for more\nthan two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sean\nNapolitano, the owner of A-1 Roofing and Construction on Bliss Road, bought the\nproperty in June 2016 with the intent of restoring it under the city\u2019s historic\npreservation standards and received partial demolition permits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As work was done on the building since then, major problems kept coming up. For example, the workers discovered the beams under the first floor, as well as the sheathing of the home, was severely damaged by powderpost beetles and water infiltration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Domestic Sea Trade Aids Wood-Boring\nBeetles\u2019 Range Expansion<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
ENTOMOLOGY TODAY; January 11, 2018 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A study by entomologists in Italy found that the abundance of bark- and wood-boring beetles such as Spondylis buprestoides<\/em> outside their native range but still within the same country is closely correlated with levels of trade at nearby sea ports, suggesting domestic sea transportation plays a role in insects\u2019 intra-country range expansion. (Photo credit: Gyorgy Csoka, Hungary Forest Research Institute, Bugwood.org) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
By Andrew Porterfield<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bark- and wood-boring insects rank among the top destroyers\nof trees and shrubs. One tactic that pest control officials have used to fend\noff these insects is to halt their entrance to a country at international\nports. Recently, however, native species of wood-boring beetles have expanded\ntheir range within their normal biogeographic regions, leaving questions about\nhow they got there and how to deal with the damage in their wake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A group of Italian researchers led by entomologist Davide Rassati at the University of Padua found that two types of beetles, in the families Cerambycidae and Scolytinae, could travel within a single country thanks to stowing away on ships between ports, and they can easily travel from local forests to a port and be exported to anywhere outbound ships are traveling. Their research was published in December in the Journal of Economic Entomology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wood-boring beetles are difficult to control once an infestation has begun. Therefore, prevention is the best management method. Post infestation, fumigation is carried out but for fumigation to be effective, your whole house would need to be tented and infused with sulfuryl fluoride, or you would need to take the shelves to a company that has a fumigation vault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why opt for tedious and harmful methods when you can have some easy solution available? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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