Search Results for: Autumn house fly

House longhorn beetle

…tive house longhorn beetle attack is under the influence of the age of the house. If the house is less than five years old, it is rarely possible to find any attacks. But the risk increases until the house’s twentieth year, after which it will fall again. If the house is more than 70 years old, it is one of the rarities that a new attack is underway. Unless the house has had new woodwork installed in connection with repairs. Prevention and pest co…

House dust mites

…skin, it is not due to house dust mites. There is only one real danger of house dust mites, and that is house dust mite allergy, which some people unfortunately develop over the course of their lives. Damage When it comes to allergies and animals, there can be different reasons why a person experiences an allergic reaction. As house dust mites are an animal species, it is also possible to develop allergies, but the actual reaction is fortunately…

Housefly

…living rooms around the world and is incredibly widespread. In Latin, the housefly is called Musca domestica, and originally it comes from Siberia. The housefly is an ancient species, it is believed that it came to Denmark during the Iron Age. So, it is an insect that has been part of our lives in Denmark for a very long time. Appearance The gray-colored housefly is about 6-8 mm long. It can be recognized by the four black stripes on the back and…

Index

…legged Hofmannophila pseudopretella Hololeucus, Niptus House cricket House fly House fly, lesser House moth, brown House dust mites House mite, common House mouse House sparrow Hymen optera Imaginary pests Indian meal moth Interpunctella, Plodia Jackdaws Khapra beetle Kuehniella, Anagasta Kuehniella, Ephestia Lactis, Carpoglyphus Laemophloeus ferrugineus Lardarius, Dermestes Larder beetle Lardoglyphus zacheri Lasioderma serricorne Lasius niger Lat…

House cricket

…r normal circumstances, the house cricket will not do very well inside the house. Especially not in newer houses where the climate is dry. At the same time, they need a place to be able to lay their eggs, which the home can rarely accommodate. However, the house cricket may find itself placing its eggs in a corner or nook where moist sand or soil tends to accumulate, such as a utility room. Prevention and pest control The house cricket needs heat…

White-shouldered house moth

…h enough nutrient content for other animals. In the wild, white-shouldered house moth and white-shouldered house moth larvae live in wasp nests or bird nests, where they “clean up” by eating remnants of feed as well as feathers and the like. They are not carnivores, so the other animals also often tolerate them because they are not a danger to the birds or wasps. Damage Although white-shouldered house moth has been quite troublesome in the past, m…

Beech marten

…e over abandoned nests from birds. In general, you have to look up to find house martens. House martens give birth to pups during the spring, specifically March and April, although some litters can be born as early as February. An adult house marten grows to about 70 cm long, but the tail alone is about 25 cm. To the untrained eye, a house marten can look like a ferret or a weasel with its brownish fur, pointed snout and round ears. The house mart…

Yellow swarming fly

…ng grasslands will often find that they are visited by the yellow swarming fly in early autumn. Especially in properties located on the upper floors of tall houses and buildings. But the yellow swarming fly also has a particular tendency to visit – or invade – houses covered with ivy or wild wine. The reason for this is presumably because such areas can constitute ideal natural wintering sites for the grass fly. However, there is no reason to move…

The lesser house fly

Latin: Fannia canicularis. Lesser house fly Lesser house fly, adult and larva The lesser house fly is the typical house fly. It is 5 -7 mm. The males of this species can be seen in a tireless bouncing dance around lamps or other things hanging down from the ceiling. The lesser house fly lays its eggs one by one in very moist, decaying substances, for example, in moist manure or sink drains. The larvae do not look like ordinary fly larvae. They ar…

The common house fly

…iginates from warm climates, but is now widely spread everywhere. An adult house fly is 8-9 mm long, with a wingspan of 13 – 14 mm. Females seek fresh manure or rotting or fermenting plant material and lay eggs there. The eggs are laid in clumps with approximately 100 eggs and a female lays 10 clumps of eggs in a lifetime. The eggs hatch in 6-8 hours, and the pale limbless maggots seek out places where the temperature is 30 ° C. In pig or calf man…

House dust mites

…ients. The allergens are still in the mite bodies so they are not completely harmless, even if they are dead. Other mites are also found other in house dust samples. In total, there are about 200 different mite known species, which are occasionally found when examining house dust under a microscope. House dust mite are the most common, however the sugar mite, Glycyphagus domesticus and the Tarsonemus are common. Just like the house dust mites, mos…

The brown house moth

…at have been stored too moist can also provide a hearty meal for the brown house moth. It is even worse if the brown house moth attack grain ceilings and seed stores or other places where different types of plant materials are stored. For instance, moist feed, flour, groats, or powdered milk. Here, the brown house moth can quickly do great damage to the stock. Prevention and pest control When it comes to keeping brown house moth from buildings, th…

Common cluster fly

…was no heating. Although the cluster fly is a species in the family of the housefly, it does not look very much like its family members. Spit flies are typically recognized by their shiny appearance, almost like metal. The cluster fly, on the other hand, is not metallic, but instead golden and hairy. Appearance Cluster flies are slightly larger than ordinary houseflies. Instead of the metallic, shiny appearance that houseflies have, the cluster fl…

Mouse

…mayhem. Appearance Every people will probably all be able to recognize the house mouse and the yellow-necked mouse but there are a few differences in their appearance. A house mouse can either be dark gray all over the body or only on the head and back, where it is lighter in its color on the belly. The solid colored is typically found in South Jutland, where the one with a lighter belly is found in the rest of the country. The house mouse body le…

The stable fly

…people often say that now flies have started to bite. It is not the common house fly, which has suddenly become aggressive, but its close relative the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans. Fig. 41. The house fly (left) and the stable fly (right). (Kemper) It is mostly common in the fall, but can also be a nuisance during spring and summer. A stable fly looks like an ordinary house fly, but is characterized by its hard, pointy proboscis which clearly st…

Louse flies

…y a nuisance to wild animals. Appearance Although louse flies is a type of fly, it is very similar in appearance to louse. A louse fly has a flattened body instead of a spherical or egg-shaped body that most flies have. Its skin is also leathery instead of the familiar, metallic-shiny surface of many flies. The louse fly has strong legs. Unfortunately, there are several species of louse flies, such as the lizard fly, also called Crataerina pallida…

Banana flies

…asses of jam are just some of the many temptations that attract the banana fly. The banana fly does not just eat these goods. The female also lays her small whitish eggs in these surroundings. The female can lay 25 eggs in one day, just as she can lay 200 eggs in total in her lifetime. The female’s eggs take about a day to hatch. And out of the eggs come the small larvae that search down into their edible surroundings. The larvae then undergo thei…

The house mouse

…r people live. In the summer many house mice live in fields, but most seek houses in the autumn. This takes place from mid-August and the biggest invasions takes place in mid-September. Inside buildings mice live wherever they can find food and nesting material. House mice can survive without drinking water and therefore thrives well in granaries, mills and warehouses. Nests are built in hidden places and are disordered piles of available material…

Stinging mosquitoes

…mosquitoes and malaria mosquitoes. Read about the different groups below. House mosquitoes The house mosquitoes differ from other mosquito groups as they search indoors during the autumn to overwinter. They do not die but stays inside during winter. The best winter setting for this mosquito type is moist, cool, and undisturbed rooms, preferably just below attic, in shacks or in basements. Several generations develop throughout the summer. The lar…

Index

…h marten faeces scent tracks Bees Beetles Bird fleas Biscuit beetle Biting housefly Biting lice Black rat droppings Black vine-weevil Blattel/a germanica Blatta orientalis Blattodea Blowflies Body louse Bombus hypnorum Bombus lapidarius Booklice , Bostrychid beetles Bostrychider Bostrychoplites cornutus Brown dog tick Brown house moth Brown rat droppings Brown-banded cockroach Bumble bees Butterflies Cabbage white butterflies Cadelle beetle Callid…

The brown house moth

…eed as well as nesting material for birds’ nests. Life cycle for the brown house moth A female brown house moth can lay 600 eggs during its lifetime. The development from egg to adult at 25 °C lasts 3 months. At 15 ° C, it takes 7 months and at temperatures below 13 ° C development stops completely. The brown house moth larvae are very sensitive to dehydration and cannot pursue their development if the humidity is consistently below 80% RH. Theref…

House mouse

…ing out into the fields in summer, but almost always retreating indoors in autumn. In buildings these mice will establish themselves wherever they can find sufficient food and nest material. The house mouse’s nest is built from available materials. This one was built of scraps of paper. They live mainly in lofts, under floors and in cavities in masonry, whence they gnaw their way through wooden partitions into kitchens and other places where they…

House cricket

…d thorax. They have two pairs of wings, of which the back pair is used for flying. At one time house crickets were associated with bakeries, but this is no longer so. Nowadays they are more likely to be found in warm ducts and in panelling behind heating installations, quite frequently in breweries. House crickets often occur in new buildings and this is probably because such places provide good shelter and food, and half-finished houses are easy…

Cluster fly

…ey are not iridescent like the ordinary blowflies, but are more like large houseflies, and can be recognized by the numerous small, golden hairs on the thorax. Their life history is quite different from that of the ordinary blowflies, and they do not visit foodstuffs in the house. They lay their eggs in the soil, and the newly hatched larvae bore their way into earthworms, where they live as parasites. During the summer the adult flies remain outs…

Horse-fly bites

…le skin. Horse flies only bite in daylight. The risk of getting bitten is greatest near marshes and river valleys. They often stray into cars and houses, which can then act as traps. They do not bite inside; however, they just sit by the windows and wait to get out into the light again. Horse fly bite hurts , and it is quite bloody. The horse-fly pumps rather large amounts of saliva into the wound. For some people, this results in severe allergic…

House longhorn

…ce until only a thin papery layer separates it from the outside world. The house longhorn’s fly hole can be recognized by its irregular shape When fully grown it pupates in a special pupal chamber which is sealed with coarse chips, but just before doing this it gnaws an exit-hole through which it will later leave the tree as a beetle (p. 118). The exit-hole, the wood dust and the chips which the larvae often push out are usually the first visible…

Fly bug

…perature may take a year from the hatching of the egg to the adult insect. Fly bugs are predators that suck the body fluids of other insects. They are often found in lofts, outhouses and similar places where there are usually other insects of various kinds. They avoid the light and spend the day hidden in crevices. Specimens found in houses are usually strays from their normal habitat, but exceptionally they may be hunting bed bugs. There have bee…

Bathroom fly

(Latin: Psychoda alternata) Bathroom fly – Moth fly These are small, dark flies which can some- times be seen on the walls and in the basins in bathrooms and lavatories. They belong to a group known generally as owl midges. Their wings are hairy and relatively large, but they do not fly particularly well. They move by a kind of hopping flight, or simply walk around. The eggs are laid in the slime that accumulates in water-traps and outlets of bas…

The common house mite

…The common house mite ( Latin: Glycyphagus domesticus) Lat: Glycyphagus domesticus. Also called the furniture mite. The common house mite is very similar to the sugar mite. It can be seen indoors in humid spaces where it can form large populations in the autumn. It rarely contaminates food or animal feed. Both the sugar mite and the common house mite are exterminated easily by dehydration….

House mouse

…(Latin: Mus musculus) Many house mice spend the summer out in the fields, but usually not far from houses. Then from the middle of August onwards they start to move indoors again, and the peak of such an invasion will usually be in the middle of September. See also p. 84 for more details on house mice. House mice seek indoors in the autumn…