Branch 3 - Wood Destroying Beetles

Front 1

The black polycaon are one of the wood destroying largest beetles at 1/2 to 1 inch long? True/False?

Back 1

True

Front 2

Beetles have a complete life cycle? True or false?

Back 2

True: egg, larvae, pupa, and adult

Front 3

A lyctid beetle is a true powderpost beetle?

Back 3

True

Front 4

Black polycaon are likely to re-infest?

Back 4

False, they do re-infest but they are not likely.

Front 5

Lyctid beetles attack mostly hardwoods and they do re-infest?

Back 5

True

Front 6

Can lead cable borers bore through lead sheathing around phone and power lines?

Back 6

True

Front 7

Name 3 bostrichidae (false powderpost beetles)

Back 7

Lead cable, bamboo borer, black polycaon

Front 8

Bamboo borers are very damaging to bamboo furniture and will re-infest? True or false

Back 8

True, false powder post do reinfest

Front 9

Deathwatch beetles are known for their mating signal. What is it?

Back 9

Strike their head against the surface they are standing on.

Front 10

Do lead cable borers re-infest?

Back 10

They DO reinfest

Front 11

Deathwatch beetles attack oak and hardwoods and will re-infest?

Back 11

True

Front 12

Name two anobiidae beetles.

Back 12

Deathwatch beetles and furniture beetle

Front 13

Furniture beetle will attack coniferous and hardwoods and prefer new wood instead of old?

Back 13

False furniture beetles prefer old wood.

Front 14

If a home has a problem with flat headed borers, you should fumigate because they re-infest? T or f?

Back 14

False, flat headed borers are burprestidae and do not reinfest.

Front 15

New house borers prefer old seasoned wood?

Back 15

False, they prefer new wood.

Front 16

Bark beetles don't really bore through bark to start their tunnels?

Back 16

False, the bark beetles bore between the sapwood and bark.

Front 17

Do new house borers reinfest?

Back 17

No they do not.

Front 18

Name a burprestidae beetle:

Back 18

Flat head borer

Front 19

What does frass from a lyctid beetle look like?

Back 19

Talcum powder-like

Front 20

Flat headed borer emergence holes are oval shaped and about 3/8 inch wide?

Back 20

True

Front 21

Bark beetles are a serious pest of our forest but maybe brought in with firewood?

Back 21

True

Front 22

Bark beetles do not re-infest? T or f

Back 22

True

Front 23

Black polycaon emergence holes that are about 1/4 inch in diameter?

Back 23

True

Front 24

Lyctid beetle emergence holes are 1/32nd or 1/16th inch in diameter? T or f?

Back 24

True

Front 25

Will a bamboo borer re-infest?

Back 25

True

Front 26

Old house borers do not live in the us but may be imported?

Back 26

True

Front 27

If you see a beetle in a home it always means the home needs to be treated?

Back 27

False, some beetles do not reinfest

Front 28

Kiln dried wood can help prevent beetle infestation. True or false?

Back 28

True.