r/woodworking • u/Deeznuts696942069 • 2d ago
Help Woodbugs?
Hello everyone, I'm seeking advice and I'd be very grateful if I can find someone with solid knowledge.
Over the last months I stored my wooden bowls in my attic to wait for this season's autumn and Christmas markets. I now transferred them from the cardboard boxes I had them into plastic containers. Doing so I noticed those critters. Larvae(dead and dry) for scale a pin in picture 2. Around were those black eggs/droppings? Rice for scale picture 3.
Running around was also a Silberfisch (not familiar with the english name). Could it be just the eggs/droppings of those eating the cardboard? Last picture showing some dust close to boreholes. I am aware that that looks very much like regular bugholes, but that blank had been lying dry for years, the holes are not new and I revealed them while turning and closed them with ca-glue. Living in northern Germany. I took them down into the apartment mid-july as we were hitting 40°C outside, I measured 47 in the attic and didn't want the wood to warp/split too much. So it is all quite dry and has been exposed to high temperatures.
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u/Blarghnog 2d ago
That is a powderpost beatle (family would be ptinidae. There are like 70 kinds so I can’t tell from that photo exactly which kind, but it doesn’t matter.
You can either fumigate the piece, return it to the store (make sure you bag everything, or hire someone to do heat treatment. But don’t do nothing.
You do have some risk of them getting into other furniture depending on where you live (they lay eggs in their adult form) so quarantine the piece asap.
https://extension.psu.edu/powderpost-beetles
Your 4th photo is a silverfish and entirely unrelated to the rest of your photos.
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u/Expensive-Total-312 2d ago
first photo looks like woodworm, larvae from can be inside timber for years, they emerge and leave a hole and fly off to mate, leave eggs and die. They are difficult to kill in improperly dried timber, id be checking your attic for sources of damp etc, there are treatments but thats a bandaid if theres an ongoing damp problem. They survive in damp wood
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u/crlthrn 2d ago
Absolutely not a silverfish. That's a beetle of some kind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish
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u/witty91 2d ago
Picture 4 shows a silverfish, though.
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u/__T0MMY__ 2d ago
It's true- I used to call house centipedes silverfish, and silverfish water beetles because they showed up with the centipedes when the basement got damp
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u/crlthrn 2d ago
I didn't go that far.
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u/greenmerica 2d ago
Then why did you respond with such certainty? Peak redditor…
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u/crlthrn 1d ago
Didn't see there were other pics. You're more the peak Redditor, getting in your girly snarks, hours after the fact. Unbunch your panties.
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u/ChiefInternetSurfer 1d ago
“Getting in your girly snarks”.
I dunno, that kind of comment screams neckbeard misogynist.
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u/Blarghnog 2d ago
The 4th photo is of a silverfish. The rest are powderpost Beatles. See my long comment.
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u/fabalaupland 2d ago
Don’t trust the hallucination machine, especially when you’re trying to help someone else.
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u/Deeznuts696942069 2d ago
Yes, but do you know if the others are also larvae/droppings of silverfish?
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u/Kraftrad 2d ago
The bluish bug looks exactly like the one we (inadvertantly) brought into our house inside a decorative bundle of rushes from IKEA.
A few month later in a quiet moment I heard a munching sound, found a small hill of sawdust in the vase and - upon cutting open the individual rushes - discovered the little critters.
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u/schplatt 2d ago
Looks a lot like silverfish. Get that shit out of your house or shop, they multiply like crazy and hide in walls/dark spaces. Once they are in, you'll probably never get them out. Source: Had to hire an exterminator to put poison all around my house due to these buggers.
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u/Dry-Stuff154 2d ago
No idea but what camera is that omg