Items for "marine borers"

The effectiveness of silica treatments against wood-boring invertebrates

Timber specimens were impregnated with the organo-silicate tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) in an effort to deposit hard silica granules and improve resistance to wood-borers...

Keywords: CCA, Coptotermes acinaciformis, Limnoria, Lyctus brunneus, marine borers, Martesia, Silica, Sphaeroma, Syncarpia, TEOS, teredinids, terrestrial borers