A Brief Guide to Woodworm
By far the most common of Britain's four kinds of woodworm is the grub (or larva) of the furniture beetle.
It bores through wood and can damage furniture, floorboards and rafters. Severe cases can cause structural damage, and make floorboards too weak to walk on.
But this is rare. Furniture beetle is a pest, but it is easy enough to bring under control and eradicate, so should not be cause for alarm. There are far worse things that can happen to a house!
Comments on this article
RE MacIntyre 3 January, 2012
Er, that picture is of old worm activity, at that density the stored sugars and broken down starches would all be consumed & the timber can only be burned!
Yours, Prof RE MacIntyre, Dept of Natural Sciences, Darwin College, Cambridge