BORER EXTERMINATION

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Eliminate Borer

Borer control Auckland starts with an paid inspection and report. Borer is a beetle that can potentially destroy parts of or the structure of your building. There are different types of wood eating beetle including the longihorn beetle and long toothed borer, but the furniture borer beetle is the most common. Borer beetles are on the wing typically in January through to March.

Wood boring beetles most often attack dying or dead trees. In forest settings, they are important in the turnover of trees by culling weak trees, thus allowing new growth to occur. They are also important as primary decomposers of trees within forest systems, allowing for the recycling of nutrients locked away in the relatively decay-resilient woody material of trees. To develop and reach maturity woodboring beetles need nutrients provided by fungi from outside of the inhabited wood. These nutrients are not only assimilated into the beetles' bodies but also are concentrated in their frass, contributing to soil nutrients cycles.  Though the vast majority of woodboring beetles are ecologically important and economically benign, some species can become economic pests by attacking relatively healthy trees (e.g. longhorn beetle, borer) or by infesting downed trees in lumber yards. Species such as the longhorn beetle and the  borer are examples of invasive species that threaten natural forest ecosystems.

Borer Invasion and control

Wood boring beetles are commonly detected a few years after new construction. The lumber supply may have contained wood infected with beetle eggs or larvae, and since beetle life cycles can be one or more years, several years may pass before the presence of beetles becomes noticeable. In many cases, the beetles will be of a type that only attacks living wood, and thus incapable of "infesting" any other pieces of wood, or doing any further damage.

Genuine infestations are far more likely in areas with high humidity, such as poorly ventilated crawl spaces. Some beetles invade wood used in construction and furniture making; others limit their activity to forests or roots of living trees.