蛀虫的危害特征
常见的蠹虫 ( 蛀虫 ) ，从分类上讲，是长蠹科、小蠹科、粉蠹科和皮蠹科昆虫的种类。其中前三类昆虫主要在木材或活树上危害，皮蠹科昆虫主要危害皮、毛及其制品。蠹虫个体较小，成虫体长一般为 2-3mm, 多数一年一代，以幼虫越冬，翌年春天化蛹， 4 、 5 月份，蛹羽化为成虫，成虫交配后产卵，卵期约 15 天，孵化的幼虫便侵入木材或毛皮中危害，是农林业和毛皮业的重要害虫。
近年来，随着木材装潢增加，尤其是住宅蛀虫害的增加，对人们生活产生严重影响，逐步受到人们重视。
Wood-Boring Beetles
Introduction
Many insect species are able to use wood as a food source or as a home. In doing so they can cause serious damage to timber by tunnelling into standing trees, freshly felled logs or wet, decaying timber. A small number, mostly beetles, are able to attack timber in the more or less dry conditions found in buildings. These beetles are often called "woodworm" because it is the larval or "worm" stage that bores into and eats the wood.
Common Furniture Beetle Powder Post Beetle
Wood-Boring Weevils House Longhorn Beetle
防治方法
若您发现家中的木材、家具、地板等突然冒出一堆堆细木粉，表面上有许多很小的小圆孔或大圆孔，那您的家具有可能受到了粉蠹，或者长蠹的危害。若您家中的皮毛制品被害虫咬出了孔洞或掉毛严重，皮毛制品可能遭到了皮蠹的危害，須进行害虫消杀。