[emeritus]

My understanding is that the furniture beetle only emerges in June/July, so this year's batch should have emerged by now. If there are any larvae still in the wood, then beetles will not emerge until next year. There would be the possibility of larvae eating their way out of an infested item and into a wooden surface (eg table, floorboards) it is resting on and spreading infestation that way. A work colleague once remarked on how he had some old furniture that had been repaired with a metal plate, and when it was removed, you could see minute dimples in the metal where the larvae had tried to continue eating their way through.