The term woodboring beetle encompasses many species and families of beetles whose larval or adult forms eat and destroy wood (i.e., are xylophagous). In...
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The common furniture beetle or common house borer (Anobium punctatum) is a woodboring beetle originally from Europe but now distributed worldwide. In...
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Bookworm (insect) (section Woodboring beetles)
are not true worms. In other cases, termites, carpenter ants, and woodboring beetles will first infest wooden bookshelves and later feed on books placed...
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Woodworm (category Woodboring beetles)
furniture in it) by these larvae. Woodboring beetles with larvae commonly known as woodworm include: Ambrosia beetles (weevils of the subfamilies Scolytinae...
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Powderpost beetles are a group of seventy species of woodboring beetles classified in the insect subfamily Lyctinae. These beetles, along with spider beetles, death...
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deathwatch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum) is a species of woodboring beetle that sometimes infests the structural timbers of old buildings. The adult beetle is...
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Ambrosia beetles are beetles of the weevil subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), which live in nutritional symbiosis with...
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Chrysochroa fulgidissima (redirect from Tamamushi beetle)
fulgidissima, "jewel beetle" or Yamato tamamushi in Japanese (ヤマトタマムシ) is a metallic woodboring beetle of the family Buprestidae. This beetle is native to Japan...
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The timberman beetle (Acanthocinus aedilis) is a species of woodboring beetle belonging to the longhorn beetle family. It is found in woodlands, with a...
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A bark beetle is the common name for the subfamily of beetles Scolytinae. Previously, this was considered a distinct family (Scolytidae), but is now understood...
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Lasioderma serricorne (redirect from Cigarette beetle)
the cigarette beetle, cigar beetle, or tobacco beetle, is a small beetle that shares a remarkable resemblance with the drugstore beetle (Stegobium paniceum)...
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The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British...
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Entomophagy, the consumption of insects as food Dinoderus minutus, a woodboring beetle that also goes by the name "bamboo borer" Wikimedia Commons has media...
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Dendroctonus frontalis (redirect from Southern pine bark beetle)
Dendroctonus frontalis, the southern pine beetle, often shortened to simply SPB, is a species of bark beetle native to the forests of the southern United...
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Buprestidae (redirect from Metallic wood-boring beetle)
Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family...
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mother clade of wasps), and flies (Diptera). Some beetles also exhibit this behavior. Like woodboring beetles, leaf miners are protected from many predators...
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Hadrobregmus pertinax (category Beetles described in 1758)
Hadrobregmus pertinax is a species of woodboring beetle within the genus Hadrobregmus of the family Ptinidae. The adult is black, with yellow hairs at...
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The European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus), is a species of beetle in the weevil subfamily Scolytinae, the bark beetles, and is found from Europe...
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The weaver beetle (Lamia textor) is a species of beetle from subfamily Lamiinae in long-horned beetle family; it is a North Asia species. Larvae develop...
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Emerald ash borer (redirect from Emerald ash beetle)
planipennis), also known by the acronym EAB, is a green buprestid or jewel beetle native to north-eastern Asia that feeds on ash species (Fraxinus spp.)....
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Hylotrupes (redirect from House longhorn beetle)
Hylotrupes is a monotypic genus of woodboring beetles in the family Cerambycidae, the longhorn beetles. The sole species, Hylotrupes bajulus, is known...
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Agrilus anxius (redirect from Bronze birch borer beetle)
Agrilus anxius, the bronze birch borer, is a wood-boring buprestid beetle native to North America, more numerous in warmer parts of the continent and rare...
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Odontotaenius disjunctus (redirect from Patent-leather beetle)
disjunctus, the patent-leather beetle or horned passalus, is a saproxylic beetle in the family Passalidae (bess beetles) which can grow to just over an...
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Chalcophora virginiensis (category Woodboring beetles)
Chalcophora virginiensis, the sculptured pine borer, is a metallic woodboring beetle of the Buprestidae family. It is endemic to forested areas in the...
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Polycaon stoutii (category Beetles described in 1853)
stoutii, the black polycaon or Stout's branch borer, is a species of woodboring beetle in the Bostrichidae family. It is found in North America in British...
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Bamboo borer may refer to: Dinoderus minutus, a woodboring beetle native to Asia Omphisa fuscidentalis, a Southeast Asian moth, the larvae of which feed...
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Hypothenemus hampei (redirect from Coffee berry borer beetle)
Hypothenemus hampei, the coffee berry borer, is a small beetle native to Africa. It is the most harmful insect pest of coffee worldwide. Spanish common...
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Dendroctonus valens (redirect from Red turpentine beetle)
Dendroctonus valens, also known as the red turpentine beetle, is a species of bark beetle characterized by a dark-reddish brown hue. It is native to forests...
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Buprestis rufipes (category Beetles of North America)
Ulmus (Elm). Adult B. rufipes apparently inhabit dead or dying wood. Woodboring beetle "Species Buprestis rufipes - Red-legged Buprestis". Iowa State University...
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