Wood borers Control Service

The term ‘wood borer’ covers many types of wood boring beetles, some with wonderful names like Auger, Jewel, Stag and Pinhole Borers. But whatever they are called, you’ll want to say goodbye to them.
Wood borers are wood damaging insect that invade and damage structural and furniture wood based on the type and moisture content of the wood. All homes or businesses constructed of natural wood are at risk to wood borer infestations.

Meet the Wood borer

Wood borers belong to the family of beetles whose larval or adult forms eat and destroy wood. They are important in the turnover of trees by culling weak trees, thus allowing new growth to occur, but in homes they can cause severe damage to furniture. They are commonly detected a few years after new construction. Wood Borers turn wood into a mass of wood dust. The tiny pin hole in a wooden surface is a symptom of wood borer attack. Wood borer infestations are far more likely to happen in areas with high humidity, such as poorly-ventilated crawl spaces.

Here are some helpful facts about Wood Borers:

• Adult beetles lay their eggs in wood cracks. They infest floorboards, furniture, wooden beams and any other wooden objects in your property.

• Larvae burrow deep into the wood where they feed and in the process they make a maze of tunnels over several years.

• If infestation left untreated, timbers within a building can be weaken and may lead to structural failure of timbers..