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A Wood Destroying Insect Report (WDI Report) is generated during a home inspection while looking for wood destroying insects such as termites, carpenter bees, carpenter ants, and powder post beetles. A WDI Report are required in some states, such as Texas, when buying a new home. References. 1.
Powderpost Beetle Fact Sheet from the National Pest Management Association with information on habits, habitat and prevention; Museum pests including powderpoke Archived 2004-12-11 at the Wayback Machine at the National Park Service. Powderpost beetles – The other, other wood destroying insects from Michigan State University Extension.
Wood products. Wood products—including wood packaging material—are the second most common pathway, accounting for about 30 percent of the most damaging non-native pests to the United States. These low quality wood products, like crating and pallets, often retain the outer part of the tree (bark and phloem) where insect life can be harbored.
A wood-decay or xylophagous fungus is any species of fungus that digests moist wood, causing it to rot. Some species of wood-decay fungi attack dead wood, such as brown rot, and some, such as Armillaria (honey fungus), are parasitic and colonize living trees. Excessive moisture above the fibre saturation point in wood is required for fungal ...
Woodboring beetle. The term woodboring beetle encompasses many species and families of beetles whose larval or adult forms eat and destroy wood (i.e., are xylophagous ). [1] In the woodworking industry, larval stages of some are sometimes referred to as woodworms. The three most species-rich families of woodboring beetles are longhorn beetles ...
It likely came from its home in Asia in wood packing materials. The small, metallic-green insect was found in South Carolina in August 2017 and is now in multiple counties. Emerald ash borer
Wood affected by woodworm. Signs of woodworm usually consist of holes in the wooden item, with live infestations showing powder (faeces), known as frass, around the holes.. The size of the holes varies, but they are typically 1 to 1.5 millimetres (5 ⁄ 128 to 1 ⁄ 16 in) in diameter for the most common household species, although they can be much larger in the case of the house longhorn beet
A disaster inspector at work in the United States assessing tornado damage to a house. A home inspection is a limited, non-invasive examination of the condition of a home, often in connection with the sale of that home. Home inspections are usually conducted by a home inspector who has the training and certifications to perform such inspections.