Wharf Borers: Wharf Borer or Pavement Borer General Description Credit: Alvesgaspar Credit: Caroline Harding Credit: Alvesgaspar Adults are around 1-1.2 cm in length, yellowish to reddish-orange in color. The whole body is covered with dense yellow frills and the antennae are more than half the length of the body. Eggs are creamy white in color, slightly curved with…
Big-Headed Border, or Metallic Wood Borers: Golden Jewel Beetle or Golden Buprestid General Description · Adults are large (up to 20mm long), brassy green to golden beetle, with blue/purple highlights and coppery orange margins. · They have elongated hard and flat bodies, nearly oval in shape, but tapered at the hind end into a point. · Five widely spaced ridges…
Old House Borer General Description Credit: Siga Credit: CSIRO Adults are 10-16 mm long, with an elongated, cylindrical body. Glossy black or dark brown with two patches of gray hairs on the flanks. Antennae of adults are long, reaching more than half the length of their body. On the pronotum two conspicuously hairless tubercles are characteristic of the species. On the…
Lyctid Powderpost Beetles: Brown Lyctus Beetle General Description · The adult is 2-6 mm long, rectangular, and brown in color. The color varies from light brown to reddish-brown. The whole head appears in front of the thorax from above. The antennae consist of 11 segments, and the two ends are swollen. · The larvae are about 0.5 mm long, cream…
Bostrichid Powderpost: Bamboo borer General Description · The bamboo borer is a very small beetle. · The adult is dark reddish-brown, short, stout, cylindrical in shape, 3-4 mm long, and 1-1.5 mm wide. The pronotum is convex and a small part of the head is visible from above in front of the thorax. Credit: Wisut Sittichaya et al. The…
Anobiid Powderpost Beetles: A - Common Furniture Beetles or Common House Borers General Description Credit: entomart Credit: Udo Schmidt They are also called common furniture wood beetles or woodworms. Adults are small, up to 3-6 mm in length. They are reddish-brown with dark spots along the dorsal stripes. The antenna has 11 segments and the last three segments are…
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