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Wasp beetle

…be found especially near flowers, but you can tell the difference between wasps and wasp beetles. Appearance A wasp beetle is also called a clytus arietis. They belong to the longhorn beetle family, which is also called cerambycidae. The wasp beetle can be recognized by its distinctive and sharp appearance. The wasp beetle can also be recognized by its black and yellow stripes that run across its elongated body. Similar to the animal it tries to…

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…

Wasps

…e nest. Depending on where the estate is located, there are different approaches. Free-hanging nest can be sprayed with insect spray. One simply sprays right up the entrance hole, which will typically be found at the bottom of the nest. After 10-15 minutes, the wasps in the nest are paralyzed and you can remove the nest. You can instead use insect powder for a hidden nest. You simply powder the entrance hole, and the wasps will then transport the…

Index

…Common furniture beetle Common gnat Common house mite Common house spider Common wasp Cone bug Coniophora cerebella Copeognatha Corvus monedula Corynetes coeruleus Cossus cossus Crab louse Cranefly larvae Crataerina pallida Criocephalus rusticus Cryptolestesferrugineus Ctenocephalidesfelis Ctenocephalides canis Cu/ex pipiens Culicidae Culiseta annulata Davies’s Colletes Death-watch beetle Debris bug Delichon urbina Dendrobium pertinax Dendrocopus…

Index

…ental 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 Dermestes frischii Derme…

Common woodboring beetles

…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…

Wasps

…ing, and the same habits. The wasps usually seen in or near houses are the common wasp Vespula vulgaris, the German wasp, Vespula germanica, and the hornet Vespa erabro. In social wasps, as in many bees and ants, the characteristic feature is a division of labour within the colony. Among the wasps the queens and males are occupied with reproduction while the workers build the nest, feed the larvae and defend the colony. Worker wasps are actually f…

Woodwasps

…, it is important knowing the difference between this wasp species and the common wasp, as the wood wasp does not attack humans and at the same time can neither sting nor bite. And they are not equipped with a sting at the hind body. Wood wasps typically occur during the summer months, and they are especially active on hot sunny days. The females search for conifers in connection with laying eggs, where they drill the laying sting into the trunk i…

Exit-holes in timber

…d 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 wood dust is very fine and rat her like talc (see p. 125). Powder post beetle exit-holes in timber Powder post beetles The exit-holes have a diameter of 0-1.5 mm. The larvae most frequently occur in the sapwood of oak, but may also be found in various…

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…

Wasps

…pletely dead and hangs back as nothing but a hollow shell. The problem for wasps (hornets) in these latitudes is that they do not, like the honey bees, store food for the cold months, and then must start fresh every spring. Wasps rarely occur as pests and in most cases you can live harmoniously as neighbour to a wasp’s nest. But if you are allergic to their stings or they appear in large numbers in a nursery, or if there simply are so many that it…

Parasitic wasps

…species vary a lot in both size and color. Some are very small and just 1.5-2 mm, while other species are larger 15-20 mm. Color wise, they also vary, some are yellow-brown or metallic, while others are almost completely black, with various types of markings. If you desire to distinguish the species from each other, it is the size and color you have to look at. Biology and behavior When parasitic wasps are larvae, they live in or on arthropods as…

The common bean weevil

…ch 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 exterminated in the same manner as granary weevils….

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…

Common furniture beetle

…evices, on the end grain, or on unplaned timber, and very often in old exit-holes. The eggs hatch after 3-4 weeks, and the tiny larvae start immediately to gnaw into the timber. They leave the un- digested parts of the timber in the tunnels in the form of small, oblong balls of faeces. As the larvae grow the diameter of the tunnel gradually increases. The larvae do not leave the timber and cannot therefore wander from one piece of furniture to ano…

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…

Hornet stings

…tinger to remove. Because of its size and deep humming sound, the European hornet can seem threatening. Many feel that getting stung by this hornet equals certain death. However, it is not more venomous than its smaller relatives, but, naturally, it holds more venom. A rule of thumb is that a European Hornet sting corresponds to two of the smaller species’ sting. Moreover, most confrontations with hornets take place during the autumn when eating o…

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,…

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….

(8) The pharaoh ant and the common black ant

…t in a colony, allow the pharaoh ant to reach far in large facilities. The common black ant is not synanthrope anywhere because it depends on aphids. Normally it lives outdoors, but in cases where a colony is located below or adjacent to a heated house, the slightly higher temperature can cause the ants to 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 ap…

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…

Wasps

…for wasps The wasp is a wide category that covers digger wasps, parasitic wasps, hornets etc. Wasps are well known in their black and yellow striped abdomens and no less for their ability to sting. In Northern Europe there are about a dozen species of social wasps, which are very similar to each other both in way of life and appearances. At our latitude wasp colonies are annual. This means that the nests are only used the year they are built. Old…

Common gnat

…Common gnat (Latin: Culex pipiens) This small mosquito does not usually bite humans, but evidently prefers the blood of birds. Its habits are more or less the same as those of the preceding species, and specimens may also be found spending the winter in damp cellars, often in quite large numbers….

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…

Common house mite

Common house mite Latin: Glycyphagus domesticus House mite under microscope. These small mites are very similar to those that occur in foodstuffs (p. 56), but under a lens they can be recognised by the long hairs at the rear end. They may occasionally occur in foodstuffs, but they are primarily found in upholstered furniture, which has been kept damp for some time so that the stuffing has rotted. House mites then feed on the fungus, and multiply…

Bug Indentification

…pra beetle Red-legged kopra beetle Reesa vespulae and larva Regular hornet – Wasp Rice weevil Rust-red flour beetle Rust-red grain beetle and larva Saw-toothed grain beetle and larva Scuttle fly Shiny spider beetle Spider beetle male Spider beetle, Sphaericus gibbioides Thysanura – Firebrat Thysanura – Silverfish Trogoderma dermestid beetle Tropical warehouse moth Vinegar fly Warehouse moth White-marked spider beetle Wine moth larva from yellow me…

Common bean weevil

Common bean weevil (Latin: Acanthoscelides obtectus) This beetle mainly infests beans, but it may also occur in other related crops. It can lay eggs in fresh beans in the fields or in dried stored beans. The female lays several eggs in each bean. When the larvae are fully grown they gnaw their way out towards the surface of the bean and pupate, leaving a thin shell between themselves and the outside world. When the adult beetles are ready to emer…

Wasps and hornets

wasp and hornets A wasp uses its sting for killing prey, but it can also use it very effectively as a defensive weapon. The sting has associated glands which produce venom. A hornet sting can be very painful, but is normally not dangerous, as the amount of venom injected is very small. In some cases, however, people do become ill after being stung by a hornet. This is due either to the venom being injected directly into a blood vessel or to the v…