…( Latin: Gastrodes ferrugineus) Cone bug This is an example of an insect which has nothing to do in a house, but which may be brought indoors from time to time. It is a bug that lives in coniferous forests where it can be found under the bark of trees. In winter large numbers of these bugs live in fallen spruce cones, and if a number of these are collected for decoration it is quite easy for the bugs to find their way into the house….
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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…
Bed bug
…less common and are largely kept under control by modern insecticides. Bed bug Bed bugs only search for blood donors when they are actually hungry. In the intervals between meals they spend their time in suitable hiding places in the vicinity of the bed. This may be crevices in timber, joints in the bed, beneath loose carpeting, and behind pictures and wall- paper. When hungry, bed bugs come out from their retreat and start to search. Their senses…
Bed bugs
…rare cases can seek into our houses and bite people. They resemble our own bugs to confusion. The bat bug (Cimex pipistrelli) live in places where dwarf bats have their resting places. Bats sometimes settle in attics in residential buildings and then their bed bugs seek down and bite people. This happens especially if the bats for any reason disappears from the house and the bed bugs are left without their natural food source. Pigeon bugs (Cimex c…
Index
…iture 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 major Derma…
Bed bugs
…ke from two months to one year before a nymph turns into a fully-grown bed bug. The bed bug can survive several months without blood if they live in favorable temperature conditions. And they will live up to a year at temperatures around 13 degrees. Damage When it comes to the damage that this pest causes, it is individual, as there is great difference in how sensitive humans are to the bites from bed bugs. In some cases, a bite from a bed bug can…
Can you recognize a bed bug bite?
…maybe only discover the animals later by accident. In most people, the bed bug bites leave red itchy spots, an allergic reaction to the foreign proteins in the bed bug’s saliva. Exactly because people react so differently to insect bites, it is difficult, if not impossible, to immediately distinguish one kind of itchy rash from the other, and the matter is further complicated by the fact that the bites can be mistaken for skin reactions due to hyp…
Debris bug
…Debris bug (Latin: Lyctocoris campestris) This bug also comes from birds’ nests where it lives as a predator on the numerous small invertebrates, such as moth larvae, which feed on the debris that accumulates in the nests. Like the martin bug it may occasionally find its way into the house and may sometimes attack people when they are asleep….
Fly bug
…. 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 been a few records of fly bugs biting sleeping humans, and they may also bite in self defence if picked up….
Martin bug
…Martin bug (Latin: Oeciacus hirundinis) This relatively small species is found in the nests of house martins and swallows, and sometimes in those of house sparrows and woodpeckers. It may occasionally be found in a house, particularly after young house martins have left the nest….
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…
The debris bug
…ocoris campestris, similar in size and color to the slightly elongated bed bugs. It is known in that it has wings. The German called Straight, rather than the winged bugs. Its natural habitat is the birds’ nests, where the lives of the many small animals, etc. moth larvae that thrive in the waste that accumulates in the nests. It can occasionally climb into the accommodation area and will sometimes drill its trunk in humans. The bite can be clearl…
Pigeon bug
…( Latin: Cimex columbarius ) Possibly only a subspecies of the common bed bug, and sometimes known as C. lectularius columbarius. It occurs in dovecots and in attics where feral pigeons roost. It is very voracious but fortunately not very common….
Bat bug
…( Latin: Cimex pipistrelli ) This species may occur in lofts where bats roost….
Bug Indentification
Almond bark beetle American cockroach Australian spider beetle Bacon beetle Bat excrements Bird excrements Black-legged ham beetle Blowfly and pupa Booklouse Broad-horned flour beetle, Gnathocerus cornutus Brown carpet beetle Brown house moth and larva Brown rat excrements Brown-banded cockroach Cadelle beetle Cheese fly Cheese mite Cigarette beetle Coffee bean weevil Common bean weevil Common black ant Common earwig Common house fly Confused flo…
Index
…s scabiei Scabies Scorpiones Scutigera coleoptrata Sebocan Seven-spot lady bug Simuliidae Siphonaptera Solitary bees Spider Spiders Spilopsyllus cunicu1i Spirokæt-infektion Squirrel fleas Stable fly Stenepteryx hirundinis Stinging hairs Stinging jellyfish Stinging tentacles Stomoxys calcitrans Storage mite Storage mites Storm bug Stueflue Stylostom Sucking louse Sulphur ointment Tabanidae Tabanus bovinus Tactic veto Tarantula Tarsonemus Tarsonemus…
Food consumption
…insect’s labium, when not in use, protects this whole system. It takes bed bugs between 5 and 10 minutes to fill up on blood. Then it withdraws its proboscis and folds it back under its head. On average, it will have spent approx. 20 minutes in contact with its host. At room temperature, a bed bug can live a few months without a blood meal. At 13 degrees Celsius it can survive a season without getting food. With food consumption it will often shed…
Mating
…t alarm pheromone. In most cases, it will cause the male in rut to refrain from completing the process. If the opportunity presents itself, the common bed bug will mate with the bat bug (Cimex hemipterus), but the eggs are usually sterile….
Egg-laying
…l. This is not such a large number compared to many other insects, but bed bug eggs sit in a relatively protected environment with good chances of survival and hatching. At a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius the eggs hatch after about a week, and the little bed bug nymphs squeeze out of the eggshell (fig 18). At room temperature, the eggs hatch in 10-11 days. At lower temperatures development time is extended further and comes to a halt at temper…
Bed bugs stick together
…there are more inquiries about them during the fall. Where do you find bed bugs? As described bed bugs only appears when it is dark and it is not possible to feel their bite, so luck is needed to surprise a bed bug out of its hiding place. Briefly, bed bugs can be found in narrow cracks and crevices near sleeping places. The bed alone offers a wealth of cracks, and if it is one of the types that fit directly on the floor, without legs, there are g…
Development of adult bed bugs
…Some insects undergo a complete metamorphosis. A good example is butterflies, where out of the egg comes a caterpillar that in no way resembles the adult. It must undergo a pupal stage where the complete metamorphosis to adult butterfly takes place. In others, and among them the bed bugs, the little bugs that come out of the eggs broadly resemble the adults. They undergo an incomplete metamorphosis. In case of the bed bug, it goes through five nym…
Where does it come from?
…e to get an idea by studying what other kind of animals are plagued by bed bugs. Today, about 75 different species of bed bugs are known. More than half of them have only been known to science fairly recently. This is due to an extensive collection of work carried out by a team of zoologists from Berkeley University in California, a job that led them to caves, to palm trees and to bird’s nests on rock ledges around the globe. It turned out that be…
Bed bugs
…legs and usually two pairs of wings 3) and an articulated abdomen. The bed bugs are true bugs (Heteroptera) .The mouth parts of the bugs form an effective, sharp proboscis, which most use to suck sap. The vast majority of bugs have two pairs of wings, so also in this way the bed bugs stand out, being wingless bloodsuckers. The common bed bug (Cimex lectularius) is, along with other bed bugs, considered as their own little family: Cimicidae. Lifecy…
How do they look?
…. The color is reddish brown and the body shape almost oval. The adult bed bugs are 4-5 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, which is a size you can see. It lacks the wings of a typical bug. The front pair of wings is reduced to a pair of small pads and the hind wings are completely missing. This means that the abdomen is exposed and you can clearly see its articulation. Males are consistently larger than females, and their abdomen, which carries the genitals…
Ectoparasites
…on the abdomen. The crab louse is transmitted by intimate contact. The bed bug, Cimex lectularius. P.41. The bed bug feed on human blood, which they suck from us at night. They are found in heated homes and are transmitted when infested house hold effect are moved. The human flea, Pulex irritans. P.92. It is found in moist, dirty houses. It sucks blood from humans. It is rare and is transmitted by transfer of adult fleas and when moving infested h…
Control
…ely migrate and spread further into the building. In living areas, etc., a bug spray is recommended (e.g., with I + II, pyrethrin and piperonyl butoxide). For caged birds used the same type of bug sprays or powders with pyrethrins and piperonyl butoxide. Remember not to treat the birds, but rather mites’ hiding places. If you want to use non-toxic controls, perches, etc. can be rubbed in paraffin. In humans. When near red mites, applying a mosquit…
Where?
…and spiders. These are mainly troublesome outdoors: Thrips, common flower bugs, water bugs, rusty tussock moth larvae, mosquitoes, black flies, midges, horse flies, bees, hornets, ants, hedgehog fleas, bird fleas, caster bean tick, harvest mites, stinging jellyfish, leeches, greater weevers and the European adder. Of course, the line that separates the two groups in this division of the animals is quite thin. The outdoor species may stray into ho…
Empicoris culiciformis
…Thread-legged bug This is a reduviid bug (Order Hemiptera) which in spite of its very delicate appearance is .an active predator. It frequents damp places, such as old walls, thatch and low herbage, where it catches small insects and feeds by sucking their body contents….
Thrips
…known as thunder flies, thunder bugs, storm flies, thunder blights, storm bugs, corn flies and corn lice. Their legs usually end in two tarsal segments with a bladder-like structure and their four very wings have ciliated fringes on the edges. In Denmark, there are more than 100 different thrips species and it is difficult to distinguish between them. Most are small, less than 2 mm long, black or brownish. The head of a thrip is bent downward and…
Bed bugs in animals
…ced) with an insect powder will prevent the problem from occurring. Pigeon bugs, Cimex columbarius, is a very close relative of the common bed bugs, maybe it is in fact the same species. It lives in pigeon houses or in attics in which there are pigeons. It may seek into the living room areas and bite humans. The risk of pigeon bugs visits – and visits from any of the other animals that live in pigeons – is greatest if you remove the pigeons and do…