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Worm-eaten wood
- Ambrosia beetles (Platypodidae, Scolytidae)
- Bark borer beetle / Waney edge borer (Ernobius mollis)
- Common furniture beetle (Anobium punctatum)
- Death watch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum)
- House longhorn beetle (Hylotrupes bajulus)
- Powder post beetle (Lyctus brunneus)
- Weevils (Pentarthrum huttoni, Euophryum confine)
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species is one of the basic units of biological classification. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
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larva (Latin; plural larvae) is a juvenile form of animal with indirect development, undergoing metamorphosis (for example, insects or amphibians).
The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly.
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The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly.
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The term woodboring beetle encompasses many species and families of beetles whose larval or adult forms eat and destroy wood (i.e., are xylophagous). Larval stages of some are commonly known as woodworms.
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Ambrosia beetles are beetles of the weevil subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), which live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi. The beetles excavate tunnels in dead trees in which they cultivate fungal gardens, their sole source of nutrition.
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Ambrosia beetles are beetles of the weevil subfamilies Scolytinae and Platypodinae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), which live in nutritional symbiosis with ambrosia fungi. The beetles excavate tunnels in dead trees in which they cultivate fungal gardens, their sole source of nutrition.
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Scolytinae
Latreille, 1807
Genera
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A bark beetle is one of approximately 220 genera with 6,000 species of beetles in the subfamily Scolytinae
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Latreille, 1807
Genera
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A bark beetle is one of approximately 220 genera with 6,000 species of beetles in the subfamily Scolytinae
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A. punctatum
Binomial name
Anobium punctatum
De Geer, 1774
The common furniture beetle (Anobium punctatum) is a woodboring beetle. In the larval stage it bores on wood and feeds upon it.
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Binomial name
Anobium punctatum
De Geer, 1774
The common furniture beetle (Anobium punctatum) is a woodboring beetle. In the larval stage it bores on wood and feeds upon it.
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A. punctatum
Binomial name
Anobium punctatum
De Geer, 1774
The common furniture beetle (Anobium punctatum) is a woodboring beetle. In the larval stage it bores on wood and feeds upon it.
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Binomial name
Anobium punctatum
De Geer, 1774
The common furniture beetle (Anobium punctatum) is a woodboring beetle. In the larval stage it bores on wood and feeds upon it.
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X. rufovillosum
Binomial name
Xestobium rufovillosum
De Geer, 1774
The death watch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum
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Binomial name
Xestobium rufovillosum
De Geer, 1774
The death watch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum
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X. rufovillosum
Binomial name
Xestobium rufovillosum
De Geer, 1774
The death watch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum
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Binomial name
Xestobium rufovillosum
De Geer, 1774
The death watch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum
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H. bajulus
Binomial name
Hylotrupes bajulus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
The old-house borer (Hylotrupes bajulus) is a species of wood-boring beetle in the family Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles).
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Binomial name
Hylotrupes bajulus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
The old-house borer (Hylotrupes bajulus) is a species of wood-boring beetle in the family Cerambycidae (longhorn beetles).
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True Powderpost beetles are a group of woodboring beetles in the insect subfamily Lyctidae and the false powderpost beetles, the family Bostrichidae. These, and other woodboring beetles Anobiidae (anobiid, Anobium punctatum (common furniture beetles), and deathwatch beetles), all
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Curculionoidea
Latreille, 1802
Families
Anthribidae — fungus weevils
Attelabidae — leaf rolling weevils
Belidae — primitive weevils
Brentidae — straight snout weevils
Caridae
Curculionidae — true weevils
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Latreille, 1802
Families
Anthribidae — fungus weevils
Attelabidae — leaf rolling weevils
Belidae — primitive weevils
Brentidae — straight snout weevils
Caridae
Curculionidae — true weevils
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Bookworm is a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books.
Actual book-borers are uncommon. Both the larvae of the Death watch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum) and the Common Furniture Beetle (Anobium punctatum
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Actual book-borers are uncommon. Both the larvae of the Death watch beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum) and the Common Furniture Beetle (Anobium punctatum
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Woodworm Cricket Company is a sports equipment and apparel company specialising in cricket. They design and market cricket bats as well as a full range of other cricket equipment, and have also recently branched out into golfwear.
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Woodworm Records was a record label set up in 1979 to enable Fairport Convention to release "Farewell, Farewell". This was a farewell concert in Cropredy, Oxfordshire, (an event that was to grow into the Cropredy Festival) because the band had decided to break up after Dave
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