Home Rising Damp Penetrating Damp Tanking Dry Rot Wet Rot Condensation Woodworm Plastering Contact Main Site ~ Damp proofing dampproofing in Chester ~ Damp control Liverpool ~ Rising damp Shrewsbury ~ Woodworm: Woodworm Treatments Nationwide treat woodworm infestations with safe environmental solutions to all species of woodworm. The life cycle of the Woodworm starts as a batch of approximately 20 - 60 eggs laid in small groups within cracks, crevices, joints and unprotected wood areas. The eggs can be seen by the naked eye as an oval pearl shape and after about five weeks they begin to hatch, with the larvae emerging from the base of the egg and immediately commencing to tunnel their way into the wood. The woodworm larvae (greyish-white in colour) spends its entire life (approximately 2 - 5 years) eating up and down the grain of the wood, in colder weather the rate of tunnelling may be considerably slower than in warmer weather. Around spring time when the larvae are due to mature it will start to bore towards the outside of the wood, stopping just short of the surface, where it will build a pupa chamber and change into a chrysalis.   After about 6 - 8 weeks the chrysalis opens to allow the adult Woodworm beetle to emerge. After a period of resting to allow the hardening of the shell, wings and etc. the beetle (brown in colour) will bite its way out into the open air, leaving behind an approximate 1.5mm diameter flight hole. The adult fly can start mating within hours of emerging and has a life span of 2 -3 weeks. The female fly will lay her eggs and again the life cycle has started and will continue. There are three types of woodworm in this country. ~ Damp protection Manchester ~ Damp course dpc Wirral ~ Damp treatment Bangor ~

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