- species-rich
families of
woodboring beetles are
longhorn beetles, bark
beetles and weevils, and
metallic flat-headed borers.
Woodboring is
thought to be the...
-
resulting in a
woodworm infestation, some
species of
woodboring insects, such as the
woodboring weevil, are only
found where fungal rot has
already begun...
- they are not true worms. In
other cases, termites,
carpenter ants, and
woodboring beetles will
first infest wooden bookshelves and
later feed on
books placed...
- are
mostly beneficial as they
control forest insect pests such as the
woodboring beetles that
create galleries behind the bark and can kill trees. They...
- wasps), and
flies (Diptera). Some
beetles also
exhibit this behavior. Like
woodboring beetles, leaf
miners are
protected from many
predators and
plant defenses...
- "jewel beetle" or
Yamato tamamushi in ****anese (ヤマトタマムシ) is a
metallic woodboring beetle of the
family Buprestidae. This
beetle is
native to ****an and Korea...
-
common furniture beetle or
common house borer (Anobium punctatum) is a
woodboring beetle originally from
Europe but now
distributed worldwide. In the larval...
-
Xylophagaidae is a
family of deep-sea
woodboring bivalve molluscs,
similar to shipworms. The
Xylophagaidae family contains seven genera:
Abditoconus Voight...
- The
emerald ash
borer (Agrilus planipennis), also
known by the
acronym EAB, is a
green buprestid or
jewel beetle native to north-eastern Asia that feeds...
-
Fungi growing in dead wood are
essential for
xylophagous insects (e.g.
woodboring beetles). They
deliver nutrients needed by
xylophages to nutritionally...
