Topic summary
Wood-boring
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Xylophagy.
Examples of wood-eating animals
- Cossidae moths
- Cockroaches in the genus Cryptocercus and in the subfamily Panesthiinae
- Dioryctria sylvestrella, the maritime pine borer, a snout moth in the Pyralidae family
- Gribbles
- Horntails
- Panaque (catfish)
- Sesiidae moths
- Shipworms
- Termites
- Wood-boring beetles, including various bark beetles, jewel beetles and longhorn beetles
- Woodlice
- Amphipods
- Squat lobster