Wood bugs

[2trapper]

Last year I bought a beech wood supply from our local store. After some days a chewing sound started from the wood. After some other days I found these

THis was not a problem until the started to gnaw my precious hazelnut staves. It seems the like expecially some types of wood (the dislike the Lebanon cedar, fortunately for my carving supply)

Any ideas about what are they and how to treat the wood?

Thanks

 

[Leiflet]

Lovely little creatures. You probably don't need telling that they're beetle larvae, which is as specific as my minimal knowledge goes.

Cheers,
Leif

 

[oldtimer]

Probably not common furniture beetle (anobium punctatum) but possibly Death Watch (Xestobium Rufovillosum) but my guess would be Powder post beetle (Hylotropes Bajulus), then again maybe bark borer (ernobius mollis). You need an expert! Italian beetles may be different.

 

[Harvestman]

Don't look at me this time. Those are beetle larvae, and oldtimer has already made more knowledgeable guesses than I could have done

 

[MSkiba]

I think it will be difficult go get rid of them. Some sealer to block oxygen to the wood might stop them dead, which is fine for furniture but a pain to apply to a wood stash (especially if your drying the wood). Something floating around my head from my childhood about treating wood with petroleum to get rid of them but I may be way way waaay wrong.

 

[Toddy]

Ohhhh woodworm.
There are treatments to kill them, but you need to be very, very, careful with the stuff because it's very toxic. Be careful with the wood afterwards too, from personal experience I can say that dermatitis is a misery when caused by the organo phosphates applied to timber to kill woodworm.

http://www.safeguardeurope.com/applications/woodworm.php
....they kind of look like longhorn beetle larvae, but then there's a lot of white larvae with brown heads, so it really needs someone more familiar with the beasts.

Best of luck clearing it out.

cheers,
Toddy