(Latin: Opilo domesticus) Opilo This beetle can often be found in a loft where wood-boring beetles are attacking the timber. The adult beetle kills and eats many of the adult wood-boring beetles while its larvae hunt the larvae of wood- borers and house longhorns in their own tunnels. In doing so they have to dig their way through wood dust and in true mole fashion they eject this material through the exit-holes forming little ‘mole-hills’. Opilo…
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…v-flavum Oniscoidea Oniscus asellus Ophion sp. Opilio parietinus Opiliones Opilo domesticus Oriental cockroach Oryzaephilus mercator Oryzaephilus surinamensis Osmia bicornis Otiorrhynchus sulcatus Owls Paravespula germanica Paravespula vulgaris Passer domesticus Patchwork leafcutter Peacock butterfly Pediculus humanus capitis Pediculus humanus corporis Periplaneta americana Phalangium opilio Pharaoh ant Pholcus phalangoides Phthirus pubis Phymatod…
Ant beetle
…(Latin: Corynetes coeruleus) (Ham beetle) – Ant beetle, corynetes coeruleus This beetle has very similar habits to the preceding species, Opilo. Its larvae wander round in the tunnels and attack wood-boring larvae. They may also feed on the larvae of moths and larder beetles, for example in birds’ nests, and like the copra beetles (p. 75) they are sometimes found on dry carrion. Ant beetle is a natural enemy of timber pests….