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The seven plagues of California’s piers are fire, ocean storms, fire, old age, civic budgets, ship worms called teredos, and fire.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024

The park, with a heavily used soccer pitch and riverfront walk, sits on century-old timbers that were riddled with shipworms, or teredos, tiny mollusks that bore into wood.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2011

But now it is time to show another set of teredos, who burrowed and swarmed in the government offices where the principal scenes of our present study took place.

From Bureaucracy by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott

The piles that supported the wharves often needed renewing, being eaten by teredos.

From Out of the Triangle: a story of the Far East by Bamford, Mary E. (Mary Ellen)