The 5 main wood boring insects in Auckland are:
- Common House Borer (European Furniture Beetle - Anobium punctatum)
- Two-toothed Longhorn Beetle (NZ Native Ambeodontus tristis)
- Native Anobium Beetle (Hadrobregmus magnus) and Leanobium Flavamaculatus (often confused with Common borer)
- Powder-post Beetle (Lyctus brunneus)
- NZ native drywood termite (Kalotermes brouni) not as common as borer but can still do isolated damage to house timbers, particulary in low lying subfloor and wall timbers. Likes high humidity and evidance of their presence is damage to the timber and (frass) faecal pellets left inside the timber.
The only borer in NZ known to have a natural predator is Common Borer (European Anobium Beetle) The borer larvae can be attacked by a small parasite (Theocolax formicarius) that will enter the old borer exit holes, quite often seen on exterior weatherboards with borer damage.
Borer treatment technicians will survey the extent of infestation and whether the infestation is still active and apply penetrating treatments with natural insecticide, which persists in the wood, killing insects as they emerge, and preventing re-infestation for at least ten years or more in normal circumstances.
Borer Treatment technicians have had over 50 years experience in borer control and hold Approved Timbor Handlers Certificates.