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…ften attract each other. After mating, the female will lay eggs in special egg capsules. These are brown in appearance and consist of 30-40 small rooms. Each room contains one egg – the German cockroach does not throw the capsule after laying. Instead, the female carries it around until the cubs can move and take care for themselves, in this way, she also protects the eggs from drying out. The hatching time is approx. 28 days. The female lives for…

…over Danish territory, it must be seen beaten by its fellow species – the German cockroach, as the German variant is by far the most common cockroach in Denmark. Appearance The brown-banded cockroach measures around 1.0 – 1.4 cm when fully grown. The color of the cockroach is light brown, and down over the back runs two lighter brown bands that have given it its characteristic name. At the front of the head, it has two long feeler horns. The fema…

…that sit more than an inch from the scalp will usually be hatched eggs or eggs with dead lice embryos. Biology and behavior The head lice prefer temperatures around 30 ° C, easy access to food and high humidity, and here the scalp is ideal. For the lice, it does not matter if the hair they are in is clean or dirty. For them, it is all about having an inexhaustible source of blood that they can use several times a day. The temperature and conditio…

…sticus exit-holes in timber Criocephalus rusticus The exit-holes are oval, with smooth edges, and with a maximum diameter of 0.5-1. 3 cm. This beetle only attacks conifers, especially pine, damaged by damp. The larval tunnels which occur in both sapwood and heartwood are oval and strikingly broad. The wood dust is extremely firmly packed in the tunnel and difficult to scrape out (see p. 139). Pine sawyer exit-holes in timber Pine sawyer The round…

…e hair if it starts to filter. Comb the whole hair methodically and evenly with the comb. Be sure to work your way systematically through the hair with the comb. Start at the front and then work your way in one direction, bite by bite, until you are around the entire head. Feel free to take the trip a few times until you no longer catch more lice with the comb. Start each stroke from the inside of the scalp. Then pull the comb through the hair all…

…o out to make her own itch mites on the unsuspecting host, which she fills with eggs. The life cycle of itch mite is not long but lasts only about 14 days. Damage An itch mite can cause some pain and discomfort to its host. But it can also be easily transferred from host to host. This happens especially through direct body contact, such as intercourse. But it is also not uncommon for such a transfer to occur indirectly through clothing or bedding….

…bolting Cocoa moth Cockroach, American Cockroach, brown-banded Cockroach, German 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 D…

…crab louse female mates only once in her life, after which she lays three eggs a day or about 25 in total. Her eggs are placed in the hair individually, where they are glued. This means that they are something near impossible to remove. After a period of 7 to 8 days, the eggs hatch and the small larvae must then undergo 3 larval stages before they reach sexual maturity. That process lasts between 13 and 17 days. The total development from egg to…

…g place, where the eggs are glued to the surface. A bed bug lays about 200 eggs in total during its lifetime: 4-5 daily. The egg laying will only occur in temperature above 10 degrees, and when the eggs hatch the nymphs are only one millimeter long. The development off the nymphs goes through five stages, where they will change skin in between each stage. It can take from two months to one year before a nymph turns into a fully-grown bed bug. The…

…r or smaller lumps. After that, she has played her role and dies. From her eggs, small larvae hatch within 19 to 60 days. The larvae are small but active and look like confusingly small versions of the adult house tick. However, with the exception that the larvae have only six legs. The development from larva to adult male or female tick occurs through different stages. The newly hatched larva will first search for a host – preferably a dog. The l…

…uch as the meal mite or the stock mite. However, there are different mites with different characteristics. Appearance The furniture mite is not easy to spot with the naked eye. Often the mites must appear in large numbers before you notice them. The largest furniture mite are only 0.7 millimeters long and have a whitish color. The furniture mite shares many similarities with the mites that go into food. It is fair to mention that it takes a magnif…

…a hole in a grain and lays the egg in it, after which she covers the hole with a secretion. In the center, the egg hatches into a larva, which begins to hollow out the grain, leaving only one shell. It then pupates inside the hollowed-out grain. The adult beetle eats out of the pupa and shell, after which it can now come out and find other beetles and of course more food. Like so many other beetles, the grain weevil cannot develop unless it is wa…

…ces in its favor, it can go through its entire development – from being an egg itself to laying an egg – in just 10 days. Sheltered indoor areas provides the banana fly the best conditions. Damage As such, the banana flies do not harm us. But that does not mean they are pleasant to have indoors. Not least because their eggs are difficult to see with the naked eye, which is why they can easily breed in our foods without us noticing it. Prevention a…

…to sleepy neighbors, just as birds can generally clog downpipes and drains with their nesting materials. In addition, pigeons can come with unintended “side gains”, as they can carry around annoying small crawls such as the pigeon tick. It is also this boring tendency that allows pigeons to act as spreaders of disease. In Denmark, however, only a few cases are known where pigeons have spread dangerous diseases. Prevention and pest control The best…