"Peter Taylor" wrote in message
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Peter Ashby wrote

snip very useful & informed advice

The Anobium punctatum's main source of food is wood. Do they also eat
paper, food scraps? What else are they partial to?

You want the specialised paper feeders for that one, consult a
librarian's group for lots of gruesome stories there.

No, they only eat wood. and generally they're quite picky about what type
of
wood, too.

Thought that "bookworms" were also the larvae of the common furniture
beetle, i.e. woodworm?

Both softwood and hardwood can be affected, but they prefer sapwood
to heartwood. Because of this you very rarely see serious damage to
structural
timbers caused by Common Furniture Beetle

(House Longhorn Beetle is a different
story)..

much bigger oval flight holes for that one, I believe & particularly a
problem around Camberley. My father was quite excited at first when we came
across a common longhorn beetle in my garden crawling over some dead timber
from a shrub I was removing.


snip

The old woodyard trick for keeping woodworm problem to a minimum was to
leave some Ash in the corner of the yard and burn it periodically. they
like Ash...



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