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Library
The ABIS library is a collection of useful reference material relating to buildings and their problems as well as timber pests such as termites.
The library is a combination of material written by ABIS as a result of our own research and practical experience together with useful information gleaned from other authorative sources.
Ambrosia Beetle
Thu, 28/05/2009 - 15:58
Strongly attracted to freshly felled logs , logging residues and occasionally very moist sawn timber
Fungal spores are carried into the tunnels by the beetles
The spores germinate and the fungal hyphae provide food for
the adults and larvae
Xyleborus perforans - Island pinhole borer
Adults 1-6 mm long, cylindrical and stocky
Rounded cowl shaped prothorax
Feed on ambrosial fungus not wood
Dark staining around holes and galleries - "pencil streak"
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