What we consider building material, some insects perceive as familiar food. It's about wood. Perhaps you have already encountered the appearance of uninvited guests in the house, actively destroying furniture or walls and supporting building structures. It is not the tree bugs themselves who are engaged in the actual eating, but their larvae. It is they who produce that sound, similar to tapping, which is clearly heard in the silence of the night.
How does a similar attack fall into the house? Already infected, poorly dried and processed lumber is usually to blame. Female insects lay their eggs in a living tree or in a freshly sawn round log stored in storage areas. If an unscrupulous manufacturer puts such material further on sale, then it will turn out to be in the form of a building beam or furniture. Another way is to buy antique items. Together with a vintage sofa or chairs from a grandmother's set, you can live in wood beetles, whose females will lay eggs in other wooden products.
Experts distinguish several types of pests, which the people have christened by the same name - a wood beetle. The photos depict, as a rule, the most common house lumberjacks and beetle grinders in the Russian open spaces. They cause tremendous damage. The problem is that you can notice damage to the wood only when the larvae have already begun to devour it. Round small holes appear on the surface, called exit holes, and next to them are observed heaps of finest wood flour.
The tree beetles themselves usually climb under the bark, it will not be difficult to etch them from there. Therefore, loggers resort to prevention. Timber is dried and processed with chemicals that repel females. The most persistent individuals, falling on the pickled wood, simply die. But the destruction of larvae is no longer an easy task.
A universal remedy for wood beetles has not yet been invented. Fans of centuries-tested methods continue to use a concentrated solution of table salt, impregnate wooden surfaces with turpentine or oils. The effectiveness of these measures is small. However, the degree of harm to the human body of the same mixture of borax with boric acid, carbolic acid or paraffin is not as high as that of insecticides.
For use at home, only certain chemicals are allowed that are bred according to the instructions and applied to the holes in the wood with a brush. You can get a syringe, additionally injecting poison into the moves. Larvae obviously will not be delighted with this.
It is impossible to use the powerful tools used by professionals. Such an initiative will result in serious poisoning. If tree bugs have spoiled your furniture quite a lot, it is better to replace it with new one. It's harder with a house. Ignoring the problem is not an option, weakened load-bearing structures pose a real threat to residents. Complex processing will help, it is better to entrust it to specialists. In the meantime, they are engaged in the elimination of pests, should stay with relatives or friends.