I hate this: I went into my stash and found a piece of curly maple that looked like it had some spectacular grain (it actually did) for my granddaughter's jewelry box. It was 13/16" and needed to be 1/2" thick so I sat out planing it down. After one pass I was confronted by numerous tunnels bored into the wood. Thinking I might be able to plane them off I went ahead and planed the board down to 1/2". I wasn't able to get rid of any of them. The pic shows the figure but I can't get the tunnels to show up. I've lost probably 80% of the board. Well, crap! Back to the stash and look for another board.

Edit in: I went back and tried a raking photograph and was able to catch some of the tunnels. The first pic I wiped MS on to make the grain stand out, this one is plain.

Edited October 3Oct 3 by Fred W. Hargis Jr

Man can I relate!! I saw a pile of sawdust under my cabinets. I didn't know they ate plywood!!!

Some wood seems to be relatively immune. None of my walnut is affected, nor cherry. KD helps but not a guarantee.

Little buggers!

4 hours ago, Robert Engel said:

Man can I relate!! I saw a pile of sawdust under my cabinets. I didn't know they ate plywood!!!

Some wood seems to be relatively immune. None of my walnut is affected, nor cherry. KD helps but not a guarantee.

Oh yes they get in almost all domestic woods. There may be some exotics they do not like . Possibly due to high oil content. I bought some lumber that had a infestation but had been treated and had to cut 2 to 4 inches off to get past the tunnels. However I got from estate at very good price.