2024 Volume 70 Issue 4 Pages 120-124
Wood-boring beetles, many of which belonging to the families Bostrichidae and Ptinidae, attack wood by creating tunnels inside, and they spend most part of their life hidden below the surface of wood. For this reason, it is difficult to directly observe their development and behavior, and information on their life history and feeding behavior is scarce. Nondestructive techniques are expected to be applicable to the analyses of development and feeding behavior of beetles inside wood in near natural conditions, minimizing external disturbance. This paper summarizes the author's work on elucidation of the life history and feeding behavior of one of the important wood-boring beetle species, the bamboo powderpost beetle (Dinoderus minutus), using two nondestructive methods, X-ray computed tomography and acoustic emission.
