BISCUIT BEETLE PROFESSIONAL
Infestations can be controlled by application of a residual insecticide (such as permethrin), professional fumigation and/or replacing affected wood. Furniture beetles can cause serious damage to structural timbers if left unchecked. Biscuit beetles are small and similar in appearance to the cigarette beetle and the common furniture beetle. They have antennae that are feathery and have a distinct groove down the middle. The beetles attack the seasoned sapwood, not live or fresh wood. A biscuit beetle has an oval-shaped body that is covered in short, yellowish-brown hairs. Stegobium paniceum, commonly known as drugstore beetle or biscuit beetle, is a cosmopolitan insect pest with polyphagous larvae that mostly feed on starch-based food (flour, bread, and cookies. Full-grown larvae change into pupae and, after 6-8 weeks, into adult beetles.Īs the adults exit the larval tunnels, they leave behind round exit holes 1.5-2 mm wide, and small piles of wood dust (frass) characteristic of woodworm damage. They feed and grow within the wood producing a network of tunnels packed with bore dust. The larvae bore straight into the wood making a hole indiscernible to the naked eye. They emerge from the wood in early summer and live for 2-4 weeks during which the female lays 20-100 eggs that hatch in 3-5 weeks. Speed of development depends on type of wood, temperature, and humidity. Stored product pests cause tremendous damage and economic losses to post-harvest and stored grains and. Throw out anything that isn’t in cans, plastic containers, or glass containers. Many are wood borers, but two, the drugstore beetle, Stegobium paniceum (L.) (known in the United Kingdom as the biscuit beetle) and the cigarette beetle, Lasioderma serricorne (F.) (also known as the tobacco beetle), attack stored products. Life cycleįour life-stages: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Drugstore beetle adults can easily chew through these items to get to the food, and if you don’t start fresh, you’ll likely reintroduce the biscuit beetle adults and larvae. Causes more damage in structural timber and joinery, for example in the attic, rather than in furniture. Biscuit beetles will lay 25-50 eggs most anywhere and if given the chance, will live on all kinds of things in the home including natural fabric (found in carpets or furniture). Woodwork and furniture in houses, stores, warehouses in Europe widespread in Britain. On dry wood of deciduous and coniferous trees it likes ivy.
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