Massive woodworms

[Cottonwood]

This is what appeared when I split some bits of dry cricket bat willow for kinderling earlier this morning

Even the smaller hole in this picture (1 1/2 mm) is very large by normal standards

The biggest holes are 4mm diameter, standard p2 bit to indicate scale. Theres a body part sticking out as well....

Has anyone else seen anything like this? I must say whatever worm was responsible, they did a very neat job the hole looks a nigh on perfect round with no tearout..... :lol:

 

[nev]

it was probably Ringo.

I think he was the boring beatle

 

[Sawyer]

Nah - that's not massive. This is massive!
I looked up this monster, which I found when sawing up dry oak. Quite a nuisance as it had bored deep into the heart wood. Seems to be a longhorn beetle, Prionus coriarius or Ergates faber.

 

[wizard]

May be longhorn or death-watch beetle

 

[Graham Orm]

Yikes! Quatermass and the pit...................showing my age now. It gave me nightmares when I was a kid and that image brought it all flooding back!!

 

[Sheffield Tony]

I think the OP's holes are from horntailed wasps. They seem to like willow. The good news is that they aren't a problem with dried and finished wood - they can only lay eggs in the bark.

 

[Oryxdesign]

Nah, that's not a worm, this is a worm.

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

 

[woodfarmer]

Think that is what they call Capricorns here in France. I found something similar live in a poplar tree I had to fell before it finally keeled over by itself.