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Bumble bee wax moth

…included in the name of the moth. For the larvae are often found in bumble bee beehives. But a bumble bee beehive is just one in a series of nests where bumble bee wax moth can make itself comfortable. They also like to settle in wasp nests or bird nests. In rare cases, they may even seek out a honeycomb. Inside the bumblebees’ nest, the bumble bee wax moth lives on the organic material found, such as the content of flower dust in the wax pots. Bu…

Plasterer bee

…can be difficult for an ordinary person to distinguish between a plasterer bee and a honeybee, or a completely different kind of bee. Which type of species that just flown past one really do not matter unless it stings. The plaster bee is in general not aggressive, although they have a sting. In a completely normal situation, however, there is not much to be afraid of when one crosses path with a plaster bee. Appearance A plasterer bee simply look…

Bumblebee

…s to bird boxes and insulation materials in attics. It differs from species-to-species what types of beehive they prefer. Appearance The bumble bee belongs to the chubby end of the scale when it comes to bees. An adult bee grows between 15 and 20 millimeters long – and the queen slightly larger. The bees that hatch early in the season are most often the smallest. The bumble bee is available in several color variants, but has consistently yellowish…

Mason bee

…noted that there is a big difference between the mason bees and plasterer bee. Mason bees build their own nests using brickwork, where plasterer bee dig their nests into the brickwork, and thereby damaging walls. Appearance Mason bees can be easily be confused with other species of bee. They have, like most bees, six legs, transparent wings that lie flat on their backs when resting, and of course feelers on their heads. The mason bees can vary in…

Bumble bees

Bumblebee, tree bumblebee Unlike the honey bees, in which the whole colony survives the winter, a bumble bee colony only lasts for a single season. This means that all the workers die in the autumn, so that only a few young mated queens survive and spend the winter in hibernation. The bumble bees seen in March flying low over the ground are usually these young queens, just emerged from their winter quarters, and now searching for suitable places…

The common green lacewing

…ong thread-shaped sensory horns on its head. The wingspan can be between 26-29 millimeters. The larva of the common green lacewing is about an inch in the adult state. The larva has a rather deadly, forward-facing forceps, with which it can grab its prey and suck out nutrition. Biology and behavior The common green lacewing prefers to be active at night, while in the summer months they usually sit in hiding most of the day. The night is their play…

Index

…y Bats droppings Bed bug faeces Bed mites Beech 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 C…

Honeybees

…king. But the extent of the work that a bee does depends on the age of the bee. And the bee will go through several phases of the work in the colony, as it gets older. In its first days of life, a newly hatched worker bee will spend its time cleaning the nest. The bee then goes through a period in which its work tasks consist of tending and feeding the larvae. Then a new phase begins where the bee begins to build. For this purpose, it uses wax fro…

Bee stings

…hrough breeding they have become extremely peaceful. The notorious “killer bees” (Africanized honey bees) are a crossing between European bees and an African species that was bred in South America in order to have a more sturdy and active bee. Unfortunately, they are also very aggressive and difficult to deal with, but stories that they seek out and attack animals and humans are exaggerated. What to do about the sting? The stinger should be remove…

Common woodboring beetles

…nce it is a very commend type of pest in Denmark. A fully grown woodboring beetle is 3-5 mm long and the color is brown. The cover wings are characterized by visible dot stripes that makes it recognizable. Biology and behavior The woodboring beetle is a common guest in woodwork, dead trees, wooden posts, timber, and the like. The beetle is only seen during the warm summer months in June to august. In the end of June to the beginning of July they a…

Index

…s Rattus norvegicus Rattus rattus Rat, black Rat, brown Red-breasted copra beetle Red-legged ham beetle Reesa vespulae Rhyzopertha dominica Rice weevil Rock dove, European Ruficollis, Necrobia Rufipes, Necrobia Rust-red flour beetle Rust-red grain beetle Saccharina, Lepisma Sarcophaga, carnaria Saw-toothed grain beetle Serricorne, Lasioderma Silverfish Siro, Acarus Sitophilus granarius Sitophilus oryzae Sitophilus zeamais Skin beetles Skipper, che…

Honey bee

…ey bees as pollinators cannot be overestimated, and their honey has always been much sought after. Honey bees live in colonies with a highly developed social organization, which go on from one year to the next. Each colony consists of a queen, a small number of males or drones, and a large number of workers, perhaps 10,000 to 20,000. As the central figure in the colony the queen is continuously fed and tended by• the workers, as she concentrates o…

The common black ant

…nies under tiles. They penetrate anywhere through cracks to seek food. The common black ants live mainly of sweet liquids. In nature they live of aphid excrement, but also various small insects, which they overpower. In private households, shops and businesses the ants especially seek towards sweet and sugary foods. The common black ants hardly have any significance as disease carriers. Often the first signs of ant activity inside, are small piles…

Exit-holes in timber

…are cylindrical (see p. 123). Death watch beetle exit-holes in timber Death-watch beetle The exit-holes have a diameter ol 3-5 mm. The larvae occur almost exclusively in oak damaged by damp, both in the sapwood and the heartwood. The faeces are large and lens-shaped (see p. 125). Fan bearing wood borer exit-holes in timber Fan-bearing wood-borer The exit-holes have a diameter of 0-1.5 mm. The larvae are found in the sapwood on deciduous trees. The…

Common furniture beetle

…he temperature, the humidity and the type of timber. The life cycle of the common furniture beetle. The eggs laid in cracks in wood. The larva that hatches out of the egg gnaws around inside the tree, and eats of it. After two to three years, it pupates the larva in a pupae just below the surface. A few weeks later, the nipple turns into the adult beetle gnawing at a round fly hole in the thin wooden membrane and appears on the surface. After mati…

The common flower bug

Flower bug Flower bug The common flower bug, Anthocoris nemorum, is common outdoors on shrubs and trees. It is 3-4 mm long, dark, has wings and a long thin proboscis. It sucks out plant lice, mites and other insects. It is easy to get into contact with these little predatory insects when picking fruit, or you can bring them indoors with berries or branches. The common flower bug often bites people. Perhaps they see us as giant aphids. The common…

Oriental or common cockroach

( Latin: Blatta orientalis) Oriental- or common cockroach, male Oriental- or common cockroach, female Oriental cockroaches, adults and nymphs among themselves This species is found in the same kind of place as the German cockroach, but usually at an even higher temperature, and it is not as common. The wings are well-developed in the male, but they are reduced to short stumps in the female. The egg capsule contains about 15 eggs, and the female o…

The common bean weevil

…ediately into seeds. The next three larval stages, which live inside seeds, are plump and legless. In the end of the fourth larvae stage they pupate just below the surface of seeds. There may well be cramped. Bean weevil Up to 28 larvae have been found in a single bean. As the common bean weevil is a member of the Bruchidae family, it is also subject to the import restrictions that apply to this entire family, see above. Common bean weevils are ex…

Aphomia sociella

…material, e.g. the wax cells and their con- tent of nectar and pollen in a bumble bee colony, but they may also attack the bee larvae. When fully grown the moth larvae leave the nest in a body and in a sheltered spot nearby they then spin a communal cocoon, which may contain hundreds of pupae. The buttery yellow larvae of the bee moth crawl on the litter’s common web of pupa cocoons. They have gnawed their way into a white foam sheet These are com…

Mining bees

…ion, some of them are more hairy, so you could confuse them with very thin bumblebees. However, by far the fewest Danes have an eye that is trained to see the difference between honeybees and the many different species of mining bees. One can mainly see the difference between mining bees and other bees in their behavior. However, one should no matter what treat a mining bee as one would a treat an ordinary honeybee, as their impact on nature and h…

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….

Common house spider

…arns the spider which comes out and overcomes it. Mating takes place in May-June and a little later the eggs are laid in a special cocoon, often covered with sand grains, which is suspended either in the web itself or in a suitable place nearby. This very common spider can be found throughout the year. Specimens seen running across the floor are merely chance visitors, for they will scarcely be able to establish themselves in our living quarters,…

Mason bee

…mia bicornis This is one of the solitary bees in which the nest is built of mud, in a wide variety of sites. On occasions the nest may be constructed indoors, possibly behind panelling, in furniture or even in a key-hole, provided there is constant access to the outside world. Apart from the fact that it may sometimes block a lock with mud this is a completely harmless species. Mason bee cells with pollen and larvae…

(8) The pharaoh ant and the common black ant

…become active earlier in the spring than it normally would. It forces the common black ant to find its food indoors until it gets warmer and aphids appear outside. The above mentioned examples (1) – (8) show that Synanthropy both qualitatively and quantitatively is made up by the interaction between the biology of the insects and the local climate offered to them. Usually there will be some continuity in the individual species’ spread from warmer…

Common clothes moth

Latin: Tineola bisselliella Common clothes moth This small moth, now common in human habitations in temperate countries, came originally from warmer parts of the world. It was probably not very abundant until houses started to be warmed more or less efficiently. It does not, therefore, live outside in temperate regions, and it is not one of the insects that fly in through an open window. A female clothes moth lays about 100 eggs, which are diffic…

Common flower bug

Common Flower bug ( Latin: Anthocoris nemorum ) These are common bugs normally seen outdoors on trees and bushes, where they live by seizing aphids, mites and other small invertebrates, from which they suck the body fluids. They are often seen when one is picking fruit or they may be taken indoors on cut flowers. The proboscis is long and thin and the insect often bites humans. In many cases the bite is quite painful but normally there are no aft…

Index

…ges Black ants Body louse Bombus Borrelia Browntail moth Bryobia praetiosa Bumblebee Burrows Butterflies Butterfly dust Canine itch mite Canine nasal mite Carpet beetle Carpoglypus lactis Cat fur mite Centipede Centipedes Ceratophyllus gallinae Ceratopogonidae Cercariae Cheyletiella Cheyletiella blakei Cheyletiella parasitovorax Cheyletiella yasguri Cheyletus eruditus Chilopoda Chirodiscoides caviae Chrysops Cimex columbarius Cimex lectularius Cim…

The honey bee

…Honey bee Almost all honey bees, Apis mellifica, live as livestock in designated hives, however, wild swarms can settle and adapt in cavity walls, chimneys or hollow trees….

Common gnat

…(Latin: Culex pipiens) Common gnat This is a small, brownish mosquito or gnat, often found spending the winter in large numbers in, for instance, damp cellars. Sometimes it will take to the • wing during the winter if disturbed, but fortunately it seldom bites humans, evidently preferring the blood of birds….

The common house fly

…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 manure the larvae…