These types include ambrosia beetles, round head borers, flat head borers (including metallic borers), and bark beetles. Wood-boring beetle adults and larvae are often difficult to collect, so identification begins with examination of exit holes frass, and damage.

Sometimes the only sign of infestation is the tiny, round exit holes made by the emerging adult beetles. Once they emerge, the winged adults spread to other wood surfaces where they deposit eggs onto unfinished surfaces or in cracks or other openings.

Powder Post Beetle

Size 1/8 inches to 1/4 inches.

Shape Narrow, Oval.

Colour Reddish brown to black.

They feed on timber of deciduous trees plus a few species of hard wood. Bore round shaped holes on the timber.

Damages by wood borer

• Wood Borers transform  wood into a mass of wood dus.
• They destroy & damage wooden furniture & fixtures.
• The tiny pin holes in a wooden surface is a symbol of wood borers attack

Control Measures

• Do proper inspection, before treatment.
• Call the professional pest controller like Pest Exclusion.