Old shipworm damage?

[Robert Jones]

Home built in 1957, this damage was on one board. Looks like shipworm damage. Of course not current, just interesting.

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[Terence McCann]

More likely to be the powderpost beetle.

From Wiki:

Shipworms are not worms at all, but rather a group of unusual saltwater clams with very reduced shells, notorious for boring into (and eventually destroying) wooden structures that are immersed in sea water, such as piers, docks and wooden ships. Sometimes called "termites of the sea", they are marine bivalve molluscs (Eulamellibranchiata) in the family Teredinidae, also often known as Teredo Worms.

[Robert Jones]

The holes were way to big for beetle damage(maybe buprestid). I was thinking that possibly this wood was brought in from some location that might have been near the coast. I remember shipworm damage being on our pest licensing test, sure looks like it.

[exploreparadise2]

I think you called it right, Robert. Shipworm tunnels are big and coated with a white, chalk-like material. The boards look like they've been reclaimed and could have been cut from old piers or shipwood.

[hausdok]

Hi, I'm thinking golden buprestid larvae damage.

OT - OF!!!

M.

[Chad Fabry]

Hi, I'm thinking golden buprestid larvae damage.

I'm thinkin' you're an ass for making me google buprestid larvae.

[Bain]

I'll freely admit that I've never heard of a shipworm.

[Robert Jones]

You wouldn't in KY:)

Chad, did you enjoy the reading?

[hausdok]

Hi, I'm thinking golden buprestid larvae damage.

I'm thinkin' you're an ass for making me google buprestid larvae.

Come on, Bro,

Ass? Is that all you've got (snicker). Ex-cop, remember. I've been called things that'd make Hitler feint.

Last Thursday's house, there was an Asian long-horned beetle on the siding. I'm still wondering whether I should have picked up the phone and called WSDA.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[AHI in AR]

Hi, I'm thinking golden buprestid larvae damage.

I'm thinkin' you're an ass for making me google buprestid larvae.

Come on, Bro,

Ass? Is that all you've got (snicker). Ex-cop, remember. I've been called things that'd make Hitler feint.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

"Feint"?

Don't you mean "faint"?

Unless Hitler had a boxing career I am unaware of...

I do think that you have to admire Chad's stereotypical Northeastern frugality -- at least as it applies to language. I suspect he has the fewest words-per-post average on TIJ. Compared to some of his posts, this one is positively verbose.

[hausdok]

Hi, I'm thinking golden buprestid larvae damage.

I'm thinkin' you're an ass for making me google buprestid larvae.

Come on, Bro,

Ass? Is that all you've got (snicker). Ex-cop, remember. I've been called things that'd make Hitler feint.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

"Feint"?

Don't you mean "faint"?

Yeah, dat won.

OT - OF!!!

M.

[hmiller]

Home built in 1957, this damage was on one board. Looks like shipworm damage. Of course not current, just interesting.

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Rob

That is "Teredo" shipworm boring in your pictures. This is common in 50's era lumber.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipworm

[hmiller]

One of my old active rain posts on the subject; http://activerain.com/blogsview/278201/ ... -my-house-

[Robert Jones]

Thanks Harold.

[Kyle Kubs]

I split firewood all the time that has holes/tunnels just like those all through it. I usually find the beetle larvae at some point also, about 1/2" thick & 3" long. They look a lot like the one Mike named. (I had to google it too) The holes from these things are in the lumber before the tree even gets cut down most of the time. I'm certain none the stuff I split for firewood has ever been in the water.