I was working on a walnut bowl and cut into a channel with a white worm about 3/4" long and 3/16" in diameter. Just curious what that would be?
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Bug in a bowl
- Thread starter Jake Truxal
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A small appetizer?
More than likely a wood beetle larva. I run into these a lot while cutting up hickory down here in South Carolina. http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=G7422
More than likely a wood beetle larva. I run into these a lot while cutting up hickory down here in South Carolina. http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/DisplayPub.aspx?P=G7422
In my experience, all bugs found while turning are of the genus - puréedia!
Steve Worcester
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It is the larvae of some type of beetle. We get them all the time in Mesquite, Walnut, Pecan and Sycamore. I had a worm the size of my thumb before. Would go out in the shop at night and could hear them eating. Telltale sign is a small pile of dust under the wood after it has been sitting.