The wood borers encompass many species and families of beetles whose adult forms eat and destroy wood. Wood Borer pest causes harm to your furniture. Wood borers family belongings of beetles that eat and destroy wood. Woodboring beetles most often attack dying or dead trees they are also important in the tree business. They are usually found a few years after new construction. Their attack on wood can be seen through tiny pinholes. It turns wood into a mass of wood dust. Wood borer infestation is more likely to occur in areas with high humidity.
You may not realize that you have a wood borer problem until the damage becomes visible, so early identification is the key before more harm is caused. Borers are insects that can negatively affect wood. The first signs of borer infection are small pinholes in the wood, as this is the hole where the adult borer has emerged from the wood. The adult will live only for a short time. After mating the female will inject her eggs into the holes of the wood.
The larvae of wood borer enter the wood as a minute dot, almost invisible to the eyes, and live inside it eating the wood from within, after a long period of around 2–3 years. Borers have been known to attack old furniture and structural wood such as floors, beers and joysticks, and roof wood.
Signs of Wood Borer Infestation?
Common Furniture Beetle :
These borers attack furniture, structural wood, flooring, and decorative woodwork
Prefer old, well-seasoned wood, especially softwoods such as Baltic Pine or White Pine
Attack some hardwoods, most notably Blackwood and imported English oak
Prefer calm, humid conditions
Liquid borer (powder post borer) :
These borers produce very fine powder dust similar to the consistency of talcum powder
Attack some hardwood timber sapwood
These borers cause severe structural weakening to the wood has a high sapwood content
Treatment :
These borers are the largest among all and most difficult to control that naturally invade properties.
Our borer treatment is applied to all accessible wood surfaces using the wood-saver boric acid treatment in the roof void and/or subfloor areas. This treatment will kill adult beetles as they emerge from the wood before they have the opportunity to mating and reinvesting.
It can be eliminated by applying solvent-based insecticide bored fluid, also the use of turpentine to avoid adults from laying eggs.
Wood Borer Prevention Tips :
When a wood borer infestation is ignored, they can potentially develop into a serious issue, such as damage to wood floors, doors and furniture. The following steps will help discourage wood borer:
Wood-boring beetles are attracted to the moisture content in wood, trying to keep furniture, doors and wooden items dry.
To prevent wood borer from breeding in cracks, seal cracks on wood surfaces.
Remove infected wood to prevent infestation from spreading to another area.
