In making a gallery they rotate their body while spinning - resulting in a tube which just fits them. They make their tubes in loose soil, under bark, or among epiphytic plants, mosses or lichens. All of their morphology is adapted to life in tubes. Males have wings which can bend in any direction, in order to fly fill a large vein at the base of the wings with hemolymph . Their food is entirely vegetable, feed on bark, dead leaves, lichens.
Most species live in colonies.
The females lay large eggs within their galleries, cover them with chewed wood particles, and tend them until they hatch. The males can sometimes be caught at lights. To find them in their natural habitat, best to go looking during rainy season when soil is damp. If you find any, you will most likely catch immatures, which can be reared easily in a jar with some dried grasses and leaves kept slightly moist. There are two species known to occur on Guam, both species have accompanied man widely.