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I don't have the heating on much, the beetles fly in, a year later I have holes in furniture. Even chewed into a guitar body I had by the door.
Amazing. Nature eh. Oh well, keep treating the holes as I find them.
Thing is they don't seem to like the softwood floor or beams as the moisture content is too low I guess.
They definitely prefer guitars and hardwoods.
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Except for woodworm, which needs to be exterminated with nasty chemicals and FIRE.
If God didn't want them to die he wouldn't have invented creosote and organophosphates.
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I am ever vigilant about checking the joists, loft and floorboards, nothing at all. Neighbour has bad woodworm in his garage, had it professionally treated twice but still the dust falls, can't get rid of them, but the wood is a lot damper, the softwood here is almost zero moisture content. really baked.
They have specifically gone for the elm legs of my old '30's furniture, which I've just treated and will keep an eye on. You could say it had it originally and I brought it in, but I went over it with a fine tooth comb and it has been here years.
I think it's a powderpost beetle as opposed to your average woodworm furniture beetle as they seem to prefer open pored, seasoned wood.
No big deal I think, but seriously its is one of the reasons I won't get a Les Paul. Seriously.
I am pretty paranoid about beetles. I saw one outside the other day, cute looking longhorn beetle. Turned out to be a Rhagium mordax apparently and no threat.
See told you he was cute.