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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…

Wasps

…. There is a sting on the back of the body, and it is with this sting that wasps stick. Although wasps are considered to be very aggressive, they only sting as a last resort. Wasps are relatively small animals. The larger wasp vespa crabro grows to a maximum of 2.5 cm long, but the typical size for smaller species is 1.2 to 1.4 cm. The worker wasps are typically between 11-15 mm long. The queen is somewhat larger and can grow between 14-19 mm long…

German cockroach

…and crickets and do have common characteristics. Appearance Typically, the German Cockroach, also known by the name Blattella germanica, can be recognized by the oval and flattened body as well their characteristic legs. This species of cockroaches can grow up to 1.6 cm long and the large cover wings that covers the entire hind body. It is distinctive by the yellow-brown body with two dark stripes on the back shield. The cover wings cover the flyi…

Wasps

…s 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 females with undeveloped reproducti…

Woodwasps

…lack with yellow or reddish stripes, as we know it from the classic bee or wasp. The wasps lay eggs, which subsequently develop into larvae that can grow up to 4 centimeters long. The larvae are white yellow with three sets of breast feet, and at the tip of the hind body they have a short and dark thorn. Biology and behavior The appearance of this pest can be frightening to many and result in panic. Here, it is important knowing the difference bet…

The German cockroach

German cockroach Season for German cockroach Latin: Blatella germanica. This is the most common of the cockroaches that occur in connection with food in Northern European countries. It is approximately 12 mm long and have well-developed elytrons that cover the entire abdomen. The breast is yellowish brown with two dark stripes. Under the elytrons are quite well-developed flying wings. They are not used to fly, but is on rare occasions used as a k…

(3) The German cockroach and the forest cockroach

Dusky cockroach The German Cockroach The German cockroach is hardly more common in Germany than anywhere else in the world. It lives in the wild in tropical forests. As a synanthrope species in colder regions it favours especially indoor environments that are both warm and humid. Outside the tropical forests the German cockroach lives in bakeries, greenhouses, hospitals etc. It spreads between houses by heat ducts. The forest cockroach tolerates…

German cockroach

…en they jump, for instance, from the table to the floor. The female of the German cockroach carries on the egg capsule right until the chicks are ready to leave it The female lays her eggs in a special brown capsule which is divided into 30-40 small compartments, each containing a single egg. In the German cockroach the female carries this egg capsule protruding from her genital aperture until the small, wingless young are ready to hatch out. At r…

Parasitic wasps

…e others choose to parasitize on aphids. Females from the larger parasitic wasp species, choose to parasitize on wood wasp larvae or butterfly larvae. Damage There are no parasitic wasp species that can damage furniture or houses. In fact, a variety of the species are used for biological pest control on farms, in plantations, gardens and greenhouses. Some species can sting with the laying brood, but this rarely happens. If this happens, it is usua…

Cockroaches

…n our homes were too poorly heated. The German cockroach is not particular German, but Carl von Linné who named it Blatella germanica must have thought so. The first sign that you have cockroaches in your house is quite large, slightly flattened animals with long legs and very long antennae that run into hiding when a light is turned on at night in the kitchen. The adult German cockroach is about one cm long, brownish with two dark stripes on the…

Wasps

…that recognisable waist. The only problem is that there are other kinds of wasps like wood wasps, sawflies and many more. If you want to be accurate, you use the name hornet on the social species that belong to the family Vespidae. We have seven species of social, community-forming, hornets in Northern Europe. They are very similar and live the same kind of life. Only the big hornet Vespa crabro, that is twice as large as its relatives, stand out….

Wasps

Latin: Vespoides spp. Hornets – wasps Season 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 nes…

Index

…s Garden ant Gas trodes ferrugineus Geophilus carpophagus German cockroach German wasp Gibbium psylloides Glycyphagus domesticus Gnats Goat moth Golden spider beetle Gracilia minuta Grain weevil Great slug Grey fleshfly Grey worm Harvestmen Head louse Hercules ant Hide beetles Hippoboscidae Hirundo rustica Hofmannophila pseudospretella Honey bee Hornet House centipede House cricket House longhorn faeces House martin House mouse droppings House spa…

Chalcids

…lay their eggs through the timber with the help of their ovipositor. Sabre wasp, large ichnemon wasp bores it’s ovipositor into wood wasp larvae to lay egg. The chalcid larva lives as a parasite on the beetle larva and eventually kills it. There are records of up to 95 per cent of the beetle larvae in roof timbers being attacked in this way. When the adult chalcids emerge they often find their way out through the old exit-holes of beetle larvae or…

Brown-banded cockroach

…t 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 female’s wings do not complet…

DPIL

…pe. Thus, this particular book is available in danish, Swedish, Norwegian, German, French, Dutch, Spanish and of course in English. The books “Pests in food” and “Bed bugs – Stings and itching” are published in Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish and German. We are also working on adding Dutch, Spanish and French. The books have for many years served as reference works – and to this day are used by professionals to identify pests. Adding DPIL here…

Bees, wasps and ants

German wasp Bees, wasps and ants belong to the group of insects known as hymenoptera (Hymenoptera). Honey bee Many hymenoptera have sucking mouth parts, a tube with which they can drink liquid such as nectar. In addition, their mandibles are used to bite and chew, and for many of the hymenoptera, it is an important tool when they build their nests. Most hymenoptera are good fliers. They have two pairs of relatively short and narrow, clear wings,…

Hornets (actual wasps)

Fig. 48. The German Wasp, Paravespula germanica. (Leclerq & Lecomte) Hornet, wasp In Denmark, there are seven species of social hornets. 6 of them are very similar to each other. They belong to the genera Paravespula and Dolichovespula while the species known as the European Hornet, Vespa crabo is more of a reddish yellow and twice the size of the others. Colloquially, they are often called wasps, however, this can create misunderstandings, as th…

Clytus arietis

…le Clytus arietis With its eye-catching drawing and restless behavior, the wasp beetle corresponds well to its name. The larvae of this beetle live in dead, dry deciduous wood. They do not attack timber indoors, but may be introduced with logs, and when the adult beetles are flying in mid-summer, they sometimes come in through doors and windows. They attract attention because of the striking colour pattern, which is somewhat reminiscent of a wasp….

Wood wasps

(Latin: Family Siricidae) Wood wasp Great wood wasp Wood wasps only lay eggs in trees that still have their bark, so they are unlikely to enter a house, except in timber already infested. It would, in fact, be possible to buy furniture containing these larvae. There is no risk of these insects spreading in the house, and it is very unlikely that they will be present in such numbers as to weaken the furniture. However, they may well cause damage w…

Cockroaches

…overts with distinct veins. ( Latin: Sub-order Blattodea) Egg capsules of: German cockroach (top), oriental cockroach, American cockroach, brown-striped cockroach Cockroaches are also regarded as primitive insects, and fossil species known from the Carboniferous period some 250 million years ago are very like those known today. There are about 3,500 different species of cockroaches and the vast majority of these live in the open and almost never c…

Index

…ischii, Dermestes Fruit flies Furniture beetles Furniture mite Fur, Ptinus German cockroach Gibbium psylloides Glycyphagus destructor Glycyphagus domesticus Golden spider beetle Grain beetles Grain beetle, flat Grain beetle, merchant Grain beetle, saw-toothed Grain beetle, rust-red Grain borer, lesser Granarium, Trogoderma Granarius, Sitophilus Granary weevil Grey flesh fly Haemorrhoidalis, Dermestes Ham beetle, black-legged Ham beetle, red-legged…

White-shouldered house moth

…als also often tolerate them because they are not a danger to the birds or wasps. Damage Although white-shouldered house moth has been quite troublesome in the past, modern technology and development have made it more and more difficult for white-shouldered house moth and white-shouldered house moth larvae to survive in our homes. Since they require a humid indoor climate, and people most often try to minimize moisture in their homes, it simply be…

Bumble bee wax moth

…mble 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. But the bumble bee wax moth also does not refrain from attacking the larvae themselves in the nest. When the moth larvae have finished their development in S…

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…

KEY II, animals with 3 pairs of legs; insects

…hout hairs With three long segmented ‘tails at hind end silverfish With a ‘wasp waist’ ants Without long ‘tails’ and without a ‘wasp waist’ Large animals, i.e. the adults are larger than an ordinary black garden ant About the size of a black ant, but pale termites Smaller than an ordinary black ant With biting mouthparts, and very long whip-like antennae cockroaches With sucking proboscis, folded in beneath head Body outline almost circular bed bu…

Other wasps

…are numerous solitary species. Some of them look like hornets (e.g. digger wasps and pompilids) and they can also inflict painful stings if you annoy them. Fig. 51. A parasitic wasp laying eggs in larder beetle larvae. It is only 3.5 mm long, and in 1974, it was common in one of the Ministries where the stung the employees. (Howard) Several species of small dark ichneumon flies may be found indoors. Usually, they will not sting people, but some sp…

Control

Fig. 50. When a wasp is not flying, the wings are folded together lengthwise so they are quite narrow. (Chinery) If you know where the nest is, you can move around the house without making the hornets nervous see, you can live with a wasp’s nest in the house or garden. In many cases, it is impractical; especially there are children in the house. Then eradication is necessary. A free-hanging hive can be neutralized by spraying an insecticide conta…

Insect development

Fig. 3.4. The German cockroach has incomplete metamorphosis. This means that its offspring will gradually come to resemble their parents as they grow. Most insects lay eggs. Some insects like cockroaches and crickets have offspring that looks a lot like the grown insects. However, they do not have wings, their genitals are not yet developed and they often have a different body shape and colour compared to the grown insects. Insects go through a n…

The debris bug

…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 clearly felt. It can happen in all seasons. There…