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…uses that are built directly on the ground are often visited by the garden ant. The ants settle directly under the concrete floor, where they do penetrate through cracks, like foot panels, and pipe penetrations. They can also settle between the insulation material of the wooden and concrete floor, this will however, damage the wood floor. The first signs of ants inside the house are small piles of gravel or sand that appears at panels. Such piles…

Latin: Lasius fuliginosus The jet ant or jet-black ant is in danish called “orange ant”. The danish name is not because of the color, because the jet ant is not orange. The danish name comes from the fruit orange. Because the ant has a sweet orange scent, which scent can be enhanced when squeezing the ant so it is believed that the scent comes from within the ant. This type of ant is widespread throughout Denmark, except West Jutland. Appearance…

…s share kinship, the yellow shadow ant does not show any mercy towards the black ants. The queen of the yellow shadow ant kills the queen of the black ants and exploits the workers of the black ants to found her own colony. Damage When the yellow ant settles down and builds nests in houses, it most often happens under the floor or in connection with other woodwork. Here they start digging material such as gravel and soil from the subsoil, which th…

…man Cockroach, Oriental Coffee bean weevil Common bean weevil Common black ant Common earwig Common house-mite Columba livia domestica Confused flour beetle Confusum, Tribolium Copeognatha Copra beetle Copra beetle, red-breasted Corn weevil Cosmopolitan blue bone beetle Crickets Cricket, house Cryptolestes ferrugineus Cryptolestes minutes Cryptophagus Dark flour beetle Darkling beetles Dermatophagoides farinae Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus Dermes…

…not without reason that the Hercules ant has earned its name. The Hercules ant is the largest ant in Denmark. However, the ant, which also goes by its Latin name Camponotus herculeanus, is not very common in Denmark. It is only found in North Jutland and North Zealand, where it lives in the areas’ coniferous forests. Appearance Although the Hercules ant as described is the largest ant in Denmark, not all the species’ ants are the same size. The qu…

…can lay their eggs. The eggs are placed in clusters on the leaves of the plants. The eggs of the common green lacewing are about a millimeter long, and they sit on the end of a thin stalk of about ½ centimeters. Aphids are the common green lacewing larvae’s favorite food, and the small larvae are even called aphid lions due to their large appetite for these. If the garden has been invaded by aphids for a year, one would therefore expect to find ma…

…ore, the pharaoh ant likes to settle in shops or food warehouses or restaurants, canteens, bakeries, and commercial kitchens. They can therefore be a major nuisance when they manage to enter food. But pharaoh ants are not just an annoying nuisance. They can also pose a risk of infection if they manage to enter a hospital, where they can find bandages, wounds, or sterile packaging. Prevention and pest control If the pharaoh ant intrudes into a priv…

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(Latin: Acanthomyops fuliginosus, lasius fuliginosus) Jet black ant These shiny, black ants normally live in trees, and they have a distinct smell of oranges. They can establish themselves in the dead parts of trees, in stumps and in wooden floor boards damaged by damp. They gnaw extensive tunnels and holes in the timber, and they fill them with a dark papery material which they make by mixing gnawed wood fragments with saliva and particles of ea…

…The larval tunnels lie between the bark and the wood (see p. 139). Small black ant exit-holes in timber Small black ant These ants form labyrinthine tunnel systems in soft, crumbling timber which has been attacked by fungus or possibly by wood-boring beetles. The surface of the timber takes on a typical rounded and polished appearance. When the colony is deserted the tunnels are completely empty ( see p. 145). There are other ants which also a…

…boring beetle larva will cease. This is also the reason why attacks by the common woodboring beetle are rare in newer houses, as the climate indoor is healthy with a low humidity. Damage There is no doubt that the common woodboring beetle leaves harmful traces that are highly visible. As the larvae get bigger, they will gnaw further into the wood and thus expand their boreholes. This results in small holes in the woodwork. In the case of a powerfu…

…es the nests can be found up to a height of 10 m from the ground. Hercules ant on infested wood The ants gnaw their tunnels in the soft spring wood, and leave the summer wood alone, so that in a transverse section of the tree trunk the tunnels appear as numerous regular rings. In a longitudinal section the summer wood remains as a series of lamellae, pierced here and there by openings which connect the different tunnels. There have been cases wher…

…t color. The portuguese slug has a characteristic reddish color, where the black forest snail is of course black. It is an elongated slug without a house, and its hind body is wrinkled. The front body is smooth, and it has two eyes on the “head”. Like other slugs, the portuguese slug leaves a slimy trail behind wherever it is. Biology and behavior The portuguese slug quickly got its nickname, the killer snail, because it simply rages both gardens…