Woodworm?

[Jazzy B Bunny]

There have been small holes appearing on a piece of wood in my whites viv... Could this be woodworm? If so what needs to be done?

[Jazzy B Bunny]

Or could it be waxworms? Probably a dumb question!

[Saedcantas]

Is it wood from outside or a shop or?

We have a large logpile at work and we take pieces randomly whenever redoing exhibits, the most common thing we get are longhorn beetles, their larvae bore through the logs leaving little piles of dust around.
Could be them? The adults are disguised as wasps

[Jazzy B Bunny]

That could be them.. I've seen no evidence of anything creepy crawly, but have seen the holes and dust piles. The wood came from my work place (tropical fish shop)

[morg]

Have you used mealworm as food items at all?
These are great at escaping being eaten, then chewing their way into pieces of wood or corkbark in set ups?

[Jazzy B Bunny]

But I did add moss from outdoors..

[Jazzy B Bunny]

Originally Posted by morg

Have you used mealworm as food items at all?
These are great at escaping being eaten, then chewing their way into pieces of wood or corkbark in set ups?

No, the only worms I've used are waxworms in that viv.

[andaroo]

Originally Posted by Jazzy B Bunny

That could be them.. I've seen no evidence of anything creepy crawly, but have seen the holes and dust piles. The wood came from my work place (tropical fish shop)

i had this problem with some grapevine i got ages ago i wasnt sure if it was safe with it being infested cos i heard they can get out and then infest your home an stuff so i just threw it out. You could bake it though at 120 C for 3 hours

[soundstounite]

Originally Posted by andaroo

i had this problem with some grapevine i got ages ago i wasnt sure if it was safe with it being infested cos i heard they can get out and then infest your home an stuff so i just threw it out. You could bake it though at 120 C for 3 hours

Jazzy I am no expert....... our woodworm leave a hole of about 1mm,personally I would be inclined to Go with Andie.....you are talking to a guy who had to chuck his frogroom floor out the window and start again,so I might be ultra cautious on this..COOK IT..once bitten twice shy me thinks...Stu

[Jazzy B Bunny]

I'll chuck it out I think! shame, its a nice bit of wood. Will I just need to chuck one piece out or everything?