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    Default termites/organisms eating wood

    Every morning i wakeup to find a fistful powdery substance in each of the racks of my cupboard.

    Please advice me on how to find out what is eating my cupboard and how to kill it.

    Thank you very much. I dont see any White ants or any type of ants around. Just powder on each of the racks.

    Please advice me. What should i use to kill them.

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    It sounds like borers. Loose boards I take outside and paint with kero.





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    Second Ball Pein. Borers - various names including 'powder post beetle' - tiny pin sized holes, little piles of wood dust. Get in everywhere - you should also have a look at any softwood framing, they love that.

    Painting with Kero works, as does baking at high temperatures for things like carvings. If you don't like the smell (they don't) then burn it or send it to the tip if you can't burn it, but that just lets them spread. Some species also have a fungus that helps them digest the wood & it stays active even when the insects are dead - 20 years later the whole thing starts to collapse (BTDT).

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