Thread: Woodworm or beetle identification and treatment?

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what sort of timber is the cupboard made from?

Any chance of a picture or two of the cupboard, dust and where the dust might be coming from?

thanks
Wendy

Woodworm doesn't like kerosene. Neither do most finishes though. If the entire piece is infected, stripping it with caustic also kills the woodworm, but will remove the finish and furr up the timber.

Treating with kero then using a thin epoxy on the heavily affected areas to strengthen the timber will work. Important to kill the woodworm because it will infect anything else made of edible timber within cooee of the piece currently affected.

Find someone with a big freezer, that stuffs 'em.

Eat a few of them with soya sauce.

Thanks all for the help. I'll post some photos soon.

SWMBO bought an antique bookcase a few years ago which was riddled with woodworm. I went up to the local chemist whom I had known for about ten years and asked to buy a syringe. You would have thought I was a character in Underbelly. Talk about the third degree. I reminded him that if I was an addict, he would have been handing a pack out for nothing; a point which he conceded with an apology.

I used the syringe to inject insecticide (kero based or close relative) into each hole. A bit tedious but it worked a treat.

Mick