Anobium traps...Matt?

[Schoolmarm]

Hoping Matt can help.

Are anobium traps still available in the uk? I can only find them on an australian site. The barn attached to our house has a lot of woodworm activity and can't dry it or heat it.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Little munching b*stards.
Sure Matt will be along, but what about Borax?

 

[Schoolmarm]

What do you do with borax?

I thought hanging pheromone traps all over to catch the males would be cleaner/greener and more efficient.

 

[stephenh]

"What do you do with borax?"

Spray it on - does it's job well and the least contaminating of the pesticides IIRC.

See here for example - there are others :

http://www.safeguardeurope.com/products/wood-preservatives.php

 

[Matt Green]

I can improve Australia to Italy:

http://www.novapher.it/anobidi_english.html

There's not enough of a market in the UK, apparently, for the big manufacturers to produce an anobiid lure. Presumably because other species are more of a problem. I would have thought that the stored product pest, Stegobium paniceum, biscuit beetle warrant some attention, but apparently not. If you have safe sustained power in the barn and it's not completely open to the elements you would probably be better with sticky UV trap. They can catch loads of Anobium if it's placed in a dark enough position. Don't use a zapper trap for fire safety and wrap any glue trap in some netting to keep bats out.

Borax is fine as a lifecycle disrupter and you are willing to wait 3-5 years for effect and clean the beams first before you apply it. Boron kills the first larval stage (the egg larva), but won't kill any stage more developed with any degree of reliability. For some (most?) applications this doesn't make it a first choice option, but is does have a decent toxicity profile as long as you are not pregnant and is very long lasting if applied correctly.

 

[Schoolmarm]

Thankyou