There are three main types of powderpost beetles: lyctids, bostrichids and anobiids. All leave wood peppered with pinholes. You’ll probably never see the adult beetles because they shun light.

Small round holes in wood and floury frass. Lyctids are small brownish adults, attack only hardwoods. Prevalent across Canada and a common problem. Small round holes in wood and granular frass.

Structural wood pests, lyctids (hardwood only), anobiids, longhorn beetles, carpenter ants, termites (limited range in southern Ontario and British Columbia). Also, a wide variety of wood-boring ...

Insects capable of infesting and feeding on seasoned wood include beetles such as anobiids, lyctids, old-house borers, and bostrichids as well as subterranean, dampwood and dry-wood termites. Insects ...

Australia also has a range of wood destroying fungi. In other environments our timbers may also be attacked by marine borers and wood boring insects, such as lyctids and anobiids. In areas where ...