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Brown-banded cockroach

…la longipalpa – originated in Africa. But over the past few centuries, the brown-banded cockroach has found its way to all tropical and subtropical locations across the Earth. The brown-banded cockroach is also found on Danish soil, after it first began to appear in this country in the 1970’s. Although the brown-banded cockroach has also taken over Danish territory, it must be seen beaten by its fellow species – the German cockroach, as the German…

Brown carpet beetle

…r wings of the beetle, which are brown. But the head and forehead are dark brown and almost black. The full-grown brown carpet beetle grows between 3 and 5 millimeters long. The brown color continues in the larvae of the brown carpet beetle. They have an almost golden brown color. At the back tip, they have a small hair tuft that has the shape of a brush. The larvae can grow up to 8 millimeters long. Biology and behavior The brown carpet beetle is…

The brown-banded cockroach

The brown-banded cockroach Egg, offspring and adult brown-banded cockroaches Latin: Supella longipalpa. An adult, brown-banded cockroach is about 1 cm long, light brown with lighter drawings. This elegant insect began to appear in Northern Europe in the 1970s and has gradually become common. It requires heat to thrive, any temperature between 25 and 30 ° C will do. It can survive in dry places. The brown-banded cockroach is shunning the light and…

Brown-banded cockroach

…ilium) There are several other species of tropical cockroach which may suddenly appear in a warehouse or greengrocer’s shop, having been introduced with goods from warmer regions, but most of them quickly die in northern Europe. The brown-banded cockroach, which is now common in central Europe, has been recorded as breeding in south Devon and more recently in London. It now has a cosmopolitan distribution but probably originated in Africa. Brown-b…

The brown house moth

…ics that 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 buildin…

German cockroach

…ot a common phenomenon in Denmark – and yet. In Denmark we find the German cockroach, which is the most common house cockroach here. This pest is related to grasshoppers and crickets and do have common characteristics. Appearance Typically, the German Cockroach, also known by the name Blattella germanica, can be recognized by the oval and flattened body as well their characteristic legs. This species of cockroaches can grow up to 1.6 cm long and t…

Brown dog tick

…ey then leave the dog and seek refuge again, and over the next 23 days the brown dog tick changes skin and turns into a reddish-brown nymph with eight legs. After the transformation, it is time again to suck blood from a dog. This time the meal lasts for four to nine days, during which the nymph grows larger and again becomes gray and swollen. Once again, the tick leaves the dog and seeks refuge in a sheltered place where it again changes skin. Th…

Index

…lies Bolting cloth bettle Bostrychidae Booklice Brown house moth Brown rat Brown-banded cockroach Bruchidae Bruchus Butterflies Cadelle Calandra Calliphora erythrocephala Callosobruchus Canicularis, Fannia Carnaria, Sarcophaga Carpoglyphus lactis Cartodere Casei, Piophila Casei, Tyrolichus Castaneum, Tribolium Cathartus quadricollis Cautella, Ephestia Cheese mite Cheese skipper Cheyletus eruditus Chocolate moth Cigarette beetle Clavicornia spp Cle…

Brown Carpet Beetle

…The adult beetle is only 3-4 mm long, the elytra covering the abdomen are brown while the front of the beetle is dark brown or black. The female lay about 50 eggs, the larvae are yellowish-brown and clearly articulated and they have a brush-shaped tuft of hair at the rear. Like most other carpet beetles, they eat dry remains of animals and plants. They are about six months to become mature and they can attain a length of about 8 mm. Brown carpet…

Red-brown longhorn beetle

…tant to react quickly as well as establish preventions. Appearance The red-brown longhorn beetle is 12-18 mm long and is characterized by the reddish brown or red colored cover wings. Color wise there are all kinds of variants. However, they have yellowish hair, which is characteristic for this species. In general, the females are larger than the male which can be surprising to some people. The female is also more robust in her appearance, while t…

The Brown wood buck

…several years before they pupate and undergo development into fully grown brown wood beetles. When the fully developed brown wood buck is ready to leave the tree, it does so through a fly hole, which it gnaws at the surface of the tree. These fly holes are, like the aisles, oval and measure approximately 5 x 13 millimeters. The passages that the larvae leave behind are filled with drilling dust, which consists of the larvae’s excrement. This flou…

(3) The German cockroach and the forest cockroach

Dusky cockroach The German Cockroach The German cockroach is hardly more common in Germany than anywhere else in the world. It lives in the wild in tropical forests. As a synanthrope species in colder regions it favours especially indoor environments that are both warm and humid. Outside the tropical forests the German cockroach lives in bakeries, greenhouses, hospitals etc. It spreads between houses by heat ducts. The forest cockroach tolerates…

The brown house moth

…s of feed 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….

The Oriental cockroach

…roach male Oriental cockroach, male Latin: Blatta orientalis. The Oriental cockroach is not as common as the German cockroach. It is shiny black and is up to 2.5 cm long. Elytrons are almost entirely missing in the females, but they cover part of the males’ abdomen. The Oriental cockroach cannot fly. It climbs poorly and is mostly found on the floor and often in the boiler room or basement. The preferred temperature is from 20 to 29 ° C. If there…

The German cockroach

…l and can be found throughout the rooms from floor to ceiling. Dispersal of the cockroach is quite passive. The insects are transported around in goods or empty packaging. The voids in beer cases for example are good hiding places for cockroaches. Cockroaches can damage food by chewing them, by contaminating them with their droppings and by the unpleasant odour that cockroaches have. In addition, it is generally poor advertising that cockroaches c…

The brown rat

…– 250 g. The colour varies somewhat, but the upper surface is usually dark brown or noble. The underside varies from whitish to grey. The brown rats thrive on the most diverse locations, but are primarily found in stables, warehouses and homes. In towns and cities, they often live in waste water pipes. Rat invasions in urban property are almost always due to sewer rats that come up through a break in a pipe. The rat is practically omnivorous. It p…

Brown rat

…paper, wadding or similar materials wherever it can find a dry place. When brown rats invade urban property they will nearly always have come up through a break in the sewers. Brown rats are omnivorous, and will eat any animal or plant food, and they may even become predatory, taking live chickens and ducklings. In many places in the world it has been reckoned that the rats eat more than half the available foods. Oat kernels gnawed by mice (left)…

German cockroach

…ive by way of special sense organs on their antennae. Life cycle of german cockroach In many parts of northern Europe cockroaches occur in bakeries and restaurants, and also in hospitals, canteens, food factories and many private kitchens. Normally cockroaches cause no real damage. It has been suggested that they transmit disease but this has not been directly proved (see also p. 55). On the other hand, there is a need to be watchful, for several…

Index

…strychoplites cornutus Brown dog tick Brown house moth Brown rat droppings Brown-banded cockroach Bumble bees Butterflies Cabbage white butterflies Cadelle beetle Callidium violaceum Calliphora erythrocephala Camponotus herculeanus Carabus nemoralis Caradrina clavipalpis Carpet beetle Carpoglyphuslactis Case-bearing clothes moth Castor bean tick Cat flea Centipedes Cerambycidae Ceratophyllus sp. Chalcids Cheese fly Cheese mite Chelifer cancroides…

Rats

…s migrated into the black rats’ territory over the last few centuries. The brown rat obviously has a brown coat, but the shade can vary. Some brown rats are darker, and some are grayish. The stomach can be whitish or greyish. An adult rat is 45 cm long, but 20 of these are the tail. The tail of the brown rat is slightly shorter than the body. Male rats are often larger than female rats. A male rat typically weighs between 250 and 300 g, but they c…

Oriental or common cockroach

…its it in a dark, sheltered place and after about two months it splits open and the small nymphs crawl out. Life cycle of common cockroach aka oriental cockroach…

Cockroaches

…ckroaches can appear months after the last adult is exterminated. American cockroach The largest of those cockroaches that we occasionally encounter is the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana). Both sexes have elytra that are longer than the body. This cockroach is often introduced from overseas, and a few American cockroaches are lucky enough to escape to a place where it is hot and humid, perhaps in a heated greenhouse or conservatory, whe…

The brown dog tick

…t come from the south. In our parts of the world, the brown dog tick is found indoors. In appearance, it is similar to the castor bean tick. Usually, the circumstances under which the tick is found provide clues as to which species it belong. Brown dog ticks need to be controlled. The dogs can fall ill from their bites, the mites can spread to other dogs and in homes. Controlling the brown dog tick is difficult and the successful method is a mix o…

Suspected brown dog tick infestation

…n it is significantly colder outside, it may be brown dog ticks. High levels of infestation in the house and ticks (especially blood-filled, gray females) on walls and ceilings may be brown dog ticks. Ticks that are found on dogs that have been imported from or returned from a vacation in the South, could be brown dog ticks….

Dusky cockroach

…only found indoors come from warmer climates. On the other hand, the dusky cockroach occurs throughout Europe from Lapland to the Mediterranean. These small, active cockroaches live mainly in woodland and on heathland where they run around among vegetation on the ground; they also fly well. In Lapland they are very common ‘domestic’ animals in the tents and further south in Europe they may occasionally occur indoors. They are frequently seen in we…

The American cockroach

The American cockroach American cockroach Latin: Periplaneta americana. The large, beautiful American cockroaches are originally from central Africa, but have been shipped to the United States on slave ships. They are seen regularly in food, but do not thrive under Northern European conditions. A similar species the Australian cockroach is also found in food occasionally. Both species can only survive under special circumstances in temperate clim…

Faeces

…ort and thick in comparison with those of the house mouse. Excrements from brown rat Brown rat droppings are cylindrical, usually with blunt ends, and they are 17 mm long and 6 mm across, but the size varies considerably according to the age of animal. Brown rats have a tendency to use special latrine sites but the droppings may also be found else- where, frequently in a small pile. Rat excrements Black rat droppings are shorter and thinner than t…

Rats

…nia, Sweden, Niels Holgersson helps the black rats by luring the attacking brown rats away with a small flute. But the brown rats create problems in our part of the world today. An adult rat is about 45 cm long and weighs about 300 g. It is normally dark brown with a lighter underside. Indoors, it breeds throughout the year. It can breed up to 5 litters, and as there can be from 4 to 12 pups in each litter, and considering that the pups reach matu…

Cockroaches

…man cockroach (top), oriental cockroach, American cockroach, brown-striped cockroach Cockroaches are also regarded as primitive insects, and fossil species known from the Carboniferous period some 250 million years ago are very like those known today. There are about 3,500 different species of cockroaches and the vast majority of these live in the open and almost never come in contact with man. A few small species are native to northern Europe (se…

Brown dog tick

Brown dog tick (Latin: Rhipicephalus sanguineus) This tick originates from Africa but is now widely distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical areas of the world. In Europe it is common in the Mediterranean countries. It occurs mainly on dogs and rarely on man. Like the previous species it has to have three separate blood meals before it becomes sexually mature, and under favourable conditions development from egg to adult takes about 65…