Any wood is prey to a number of organisms. The house borer beetle likes to make an endless system of tunnels as it eats its way through wood. The process starts when an adult female lays eggs ...

These insects are medium to large (1½ inches), bullet to oval-shaped, with short antennae. The flatheaded appletree borer (Chrysobothris femorata) is a metallic wood borer that can be found in ...

Anyone from KwaZulu Natal will be familiar with wood-borer beetles. They are common in coastal regions especially and throughout KZN where ever the climate is ideal for their life cycle.

the beetles are reported to damage cut oak wood. In Napa County, the beetle has been observed to colonize trees from the top, sometimes starting from branches high in the canopy, and then as the ...

A West Australian arborist says the shot-hole borer is keeping ... warmed and the beetle became more active. "The beetle can live for six or seven months in a piece of dead wood," he said.