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Yellow shadow ant

…e many different yellow ants, all belonging to the same genus, such as the ants Lasius umbratus, Lasius flavus and Lasius mixtus. Many of these ants are common in Denmark. But especially one species of yellow ant with the Latin name Lasius umbratus will often appear indoors, where it can be a troublesome guest. And it is this species that the following refers to. Appearance The yellow shadow ant worker in the genus Lasius umbratus has a yellowish…

Jet ant

Latin: Lasius fuliginosus The jet ant or jet-black ant is in danish called “orange ant”. The danish name is not because of the color, because the jet ant is not orange. The danish name comes from the fruit orange. Because the ant has a sweet orange scent, which scent can be enhanced when squeezing the ant so it is believed that the scent comes from within the ant. This type of ant is widespread throughout Denmark, except West Jutland. Appearance…

Black garden ant

…uses that are built directly on the ground are often visited by the garden ant. The ants settle directly under the concrete floor, where they do penetrate through cracks, like foot panels, and pipe penetrations. They can also settle between the insulation material of the wooden and concrete floor, this will however, damage the wood floor. The first signs of ants inside the house are small piles of gravel or sand that appears at panels. Such piles…

(8) The pharaoh ant and the common black ant

…, 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 aphids appear o…

Hercules ant

…not without reason that the Hercules ant has earned its name. The Hercules ant is the largest ant in Denmark. However, the ant, which also goes by its Latin name Camponotus herculeanus, is not very common in Denmark. It is only found in North Jutland and North Zealand, where it lives in the areas’ coniferous forests. Appearance Although the Hercules ant as described is the largest ant in Denmark, not all the species’ ants are the same size. The qu…

Pharaoh ant

…ore, the pharaoh ant likes to settle in shops or food warehouses or restaurants, canteens, bakeries, and commercial kitchens. They can therefore be a major nuisance when they manage to enter food. But pharaoh ants are not just an annoying nuisance. They can also pose a risk of infection if they manage to enter a hospital, where they can find bandages, wounds, or sterile packaging. Prevention and pest control If the pharaoh ant intrudes into a priv…

The pharaoh ant

…: Monomorium pharaonis. Pharaoh ant Season for Pharaoh ants A tiny, bright yellow ant. The workers are only approximately 2 mm long. It is originally a tropical species, which has spread across the world through imports. In Northern Europe it has been known since the 1920s. In Northern Europe, the pharaoh ant depends on heated buildings. The pharaoh ant is most often found in food stocks and businesses, but can also be troublesome in canteens, hot…

Yellow swarming fly

…s will die, but on ceilings and in small cracks and crevices, the very cold-tolerant flies will overwinter. The flies like to visit the same buildings year after year. Damage Residents with surrounding grasslands will often find that they are visited by the yellow swarming fly in early autumn. Especially in properties located on the upper floors of tall houses and buildings. But the yellow swarming fly also has a particular tendency to visit – or…

Mouse

…to get outside again as they do not thrive indoor. The house mouse and the yellow-necked mouse can cause plenty of trouble, as they easily sneak in through small holes and overwinter in homes and other buildings, causing mayhem. Appearance Every people will probably all be able to recognize the house mouse and the yellow-necked mouse but there are a few differences in their appearance. A house mouse can either be dark gray all over the body or onl…

The yellow mealworm beetle

…tle. a: larva, b: pupa, c: adult, d: egg surrounded by flour particles, e: antennae. The yellow mealworms beetle is not a significant pest compared to years ago when it was common in grain storages and small mills. Today it often lives in sparrows’ nests. If you are bothered by yellow mealworm beetles in a building, you should detect and remove any birds’ nests. The surroundings should be treated with an insecticide powder because larvae, pupae or…

Index

…flour moth Mercator, Oryzaephilus Merchant grain beetle Mice, house Mice, yellow-necked Minutus, Cryptolestes Minutus, Lathridius Mite, cheese Mite, common house Mite, flour Mite, forage Mite, furniture Mite, house dust Mite, mould Mite, prune Mite, storage Mite, sugar Molitor, Tenebrio Monomorium pharaonis Moth, brown house Moth, chocolate Moth, cocoa Moth, Indian meal Moth, Mediterranean Moth, tobacco Moth, tropical warehouse Moth, warehouse Mo…

The common black ant

…t, worker The bait must be set up somewhere that it does not bother having ants crawling around. The ants fill their stomachs with the poisoned honey and distribute it to other ants and offspring in the colony. Provide the ants plentiful before they suspect something. Do not tempt children or pets with this bait by placing or forgetting it in somewhere that they can get to it. Ants on the premises are particularly a spring phenomenon. In summer, t…

Ants

…ants have settled under the house, it is difficult to completely exterminate the colony. A treatment where they come out at panels or piping with an approved insecticide dust or spray can have an effect, and the different types of ant-lure boxes also have effects against ants. There is a tendency that these communities that live under houses will move out to the socket when the sun shines more, and here is the opportunity to hit them with the abo…

Small black or garden ant

…atin: Acanthomyops niger, lasius niger Preferred common name: Common black ant Small black or garden ant Tender woodwork that has served as part of a nest of black garden ants. The surface gets a typically sanded structure Several of the ants which otherwise live in the ground will occasionally build their nests in damp timber in the house, and these include the garden ant. They will only start to gnaw their way into timber which has already been…

Hercules ant

…es the nests can be found up to a height of 10 m from the ground. Hercules ant on infested wood The ants gnaw their tunnels in the soft spring wood, and leave the summer wood alone, so that in a transverse section of the tree trunk the tunnels appear as numerous regular rings. In a longitudinal section the summer wood remains as a series of lamellae, pierced here and there by openings which connect the different tunnels. There have been cases wher…

Small black or garden ant

Latin: Lasius niger Black garden ant These are the ants most commonly seen on verandas and in the house. They live in the ground, frequently under rocks or flagstones, and they will often penetrate under the house itself, particularly if it has been built directly on the ground. Ants frequently build nests in the insulation layer and from there they penetrate up into the house itself through the cracks which inevitably appear in the cement. Garde…

Ants

…empt to bite a whole in the skin while spraying the venom. Fig. 54. A wood ant anthill. (Ib Andersen) The wood ants are useful animals, which kill harmful insects, but a large anthill in the immediate vicinity of the house can be troublesome. If you want to save the wood ant colony, you can scoop the anthill into a tarpaulin and place it in a suitable location in the woods. Alternatively, you can coat the anthill {1with insect powder. Pharaoh ant,…

Index

…tegia glabrata Anobiidae Anobium punctatum Anopheles maculipennis Anoplura Ant beetle Anthocoris nemorum Anthrenus sp. Ants Aphaniptera Aphomia sociella Apis mellifica Apodemusfiavicollis Apodemus sylvaticus Apoidea Apus apus Araecerusfasciculatus Archiulus sabulosus Argus refiexus Ash bark beetle Athene noctua Atropus pulsatorius Attagenus pellio Australian spider beetle Aves Bacon beetles , Bark beetles Barn owl Bat bug Bathroom fly Bats droppin…

Jet black ant

(Latin: Acanthomyops fuliginosus, lasius fuliginosus) Jet black ant These shiny, black ants normally live in trees, and they have a distinct smell of oranges. They can establish themselves in the dead parts of trees, in stumps and in wooden floor boards damaged by damp. They gnaw extensive tunnels and holes in the timber, and they fill them with a dark papery material which they make by mixing gnawed wood fragments with saliva and particles of ea…

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….

Pharaoh ant

Latin: Monomorium pharaonis Pharaoh ant This small yellowish-red ant gets its popular and specific names from the fact that it was erroneously believed to have been one of the plagues of ancient Egypt. In fact, it came originally from the tropics and reached Europe in the early years of this century. It is completely dependent upon heated houses. Like the native ants, this tropical species lives in colonies, but in contrast to most other ants the…

The jet black ant

…Latin: Acanthomyops fuliginosus Jet black ant It may also find its way into the kitchen. It makes it’s nest in timber and is discussed in more detail in the book on page 145 – jet black ant and timerberpest – together with the pests of timber….

The yellow-necked mouse

…s, but is also common in gardens with many trees and shrubs. Most of the year they stay out in the open, and the ones that invade houses do it towards the end of October. The yellow-necked mice continue to seek inside through the winter, apparently as the food in their natural habitats disappears….

Yellow-necked mouse

…er. They will eat stores of fruit in cellars or other places. In the wild, yellow-necked mice feed on all kinds of seeds and they are very fond of hazelnuts and almonds. They are primarily woodland animals, which have spread to gardens and parks with scattered trees and bushes. They are common in many parts of Europe and also occur in southern England. The closely related wood mouse, Apodemus sylvaticus, is found throughout the British Isles and i…

Ant beetle

…Ham beetle ( Latin: Corynetes coeruleus) This beetle is similar to the copra beetles, but is a uniform iridescent green. The larvae feed on dried carrion and may also eat smoked meat products. In roof spaces suffering attack by wood-boring beetles it lives as a predator (p. 121), its larvae hunting the wood-boring larvae like a mole hunting earthworms….

Woodboring beetle

…obregmus pertinax. Its head is hidden under the neck shield. The larva is c-shaped and is white with yellow hairs. Biology and behavior To attract the females, the male makes a ticking sound, by banging his head against the woodwork. After mating, the female lays about 10 eggs, which are placed in cracks in the tree. The preferred cracks consist mainly of old fly holes or passages, where the newly hatched larvae will immediately drill into the woo…

KEY II, animals with 3 pairs of legs; insects

…aller 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 bugs. Body outline oval, always covered with dust fly bug (nymphs) Dark, shiny, hard (almost impossible to squash) Pale and soft (easily squashed) Sluggish, living as parasites on man and animals lice. Active, free-living With a forked springing organ at rear end sprin…

Faeces

…ometimes have a small ‘tail’ (see opposite page). They are extremely resist- ant and therefore very useful as signs to show whether bed bugs are or have been present in a house. Fleas deposit their faeces as drops of more or less digested blood. They normally produce several such drops while they are sucking, thus leaving small red spots on the skin, clothing or sheets. Flea faeces can be found on the skin of dogs and cats as dark coagulated parti…

Wasp beetle

…the two animals is by noticing that the wasps’ stripes are more black than yellow, with the wasps being more yellow than black. In addition, the wasp beetle’s legs are longer, so it can crawl around more easily, where the wasp’s legs are shorter, so it can fly more easily. Finally, the wasp has its transparent wings on each side of the body, where the wasp beetle has no wings at all. Therefore, the wasp beetle cannot fly either, but typically stay…

Life cycle

…the mosquitoes can leave the puddle as adults. This usually happens in mid-May. There is only one generation of these mosquitoes every year. The life cycle of the beach meadow mosquitoes is similar to that of the forest mosquitoes; however, they lay their eggs on low, moist places in beach meadows and in reed swamps, where puddles of brackish water are formed when water levels rise. There may be several generations of beach meadow mosquitoes each…