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Article: Antiques: How to stop thi creature reducing furniture to dus; Christopher Proudlove on the hungry beetles who want to eat your antiques.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2005
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Byline: Christopher Proudlove
IT'S that time of year again, high noon either for your antique furniture, or the beetles eating it. But action now can prevent the worst. Fact is, between now and the end of August, the tiny larvae of the common furniture beetle (anobium punctatum) that have been chewing their way through your woodwork, emerge as adults. They then either fly or walk to the next piece to find a mate, lay their eggs and start the process all over again.
The result in the best-case scenario is a piece of furniture whose strength is seriously undermined by the tiny tunnelling and chomping. Worst case? A piece reduced to a pile of dust.
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