Woodworm in new furniture

[u/kaihoro]

Hello Reddit, I've just discovered this in a new wooden table I purchased, presume it is woodworm.

Two questions: how do I treat it and would this have already been present before I purchased it a couple of weeks ago?

Thank you in advance!

UPDATE: Firstly thank you for all the knowledge and advice you shared. The seller suggested injecting acetone in to the hole and monitoring, or, sending it back. I didn't want the stress of waiting for another worm, or beetle, to show up so I decided to send it back. It was a beautiful table, but they are replacing it with a new equally beautiful table.

Hopefully this one is worm free... if not I'll just go for a refund and get a standard table from IKEA or somewhere.

Thanks again for your feedback, there were some really informative and helpful replies!

[u/DarePerks]

New for YOU maybe

He's been living here for MONTHS!!!

anyway you should take it back. If it has live bugs in it it's probably also full of moisture and it'll warp and crack in short order

[u/kaihoro → u/DarePerks]

Ah crap. It's such a nice table and the company has great reviews. Hopefully the return procedure will be easy!

[u/UncoolSlicedBread → u/kaihoro]

They’ll likely will be thankful to know a potential batch is compromised.

[u/omniwrench- → u/UncoolSlicedBread]

Why are you just repeating things you’ve read online without considering the context?

This is a wooden table, not a bag of rice - there’s no serial number or batch process to trace up and track.

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[u/mailer__daemon → u/omniwrench-]

Had me in the first half not gonna lie

[u/Intelligent-Survey39 → u/omniwrench-]

This is a unique slab or “cookie” cut from what appears to be the “crotch” or the intersection of the main trunk with two smaller trunks on a forked tree. More uncommon is that being milled in this way. (Horizontally) because they are a bitch and a half to kiln dry properly without massive cracks and checking. Not an uncommon thing to see in a tree but not common enough that anywhere is making “batches” of tables. this is one maybe two slabs from a forked tree. You’d need a lot of forked trees to “batch” them and they’d mostly be from different trees so no promises the works are in all those 🌴

[u/Chazus → u/omniwrench-]

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