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The cigarette beetle

Cigarette beetle
Cigarette beetle
Season for cigarette beetle
Season for cigarette beetle

Latin: Lasioderma serricorne.

The cigarette beetle is 2-4 mm long and resembles the drugstore beetle very much. With a little magnification you will notice that the cigarette beetles’ antennae are serrated. Each link is a serration. Drugstore beetle antennae have rounded corners. Cigarette beetles, like drugstore beetles, live in many kinds of products, like rice, cocoa, figs, paprika and various herbal substances and pharmaceuticals. They also have an ability to live with the insecticide, that is nicotine, and this quality has made the cigarette beetle the pest of the tobacco industry.
The larvae can live both in raw tobacco and manufactured goods. Rotten tobacco products should be discarded. Even though the holes can often be covered, very few smokers want the experience of the glow reaching a beetle.

The cigarette beetle lives especially in tropical and subtropical regions. It requires heat. At temperatures below 21 ° C it does not reproduce, and at 18 ° it is paralysed. Optimal temperatures are between 32 and 35 ° C, where the population increases itself 20-fold every month. Cigarette beetles can survive at humidity levels down to 30% RH. Newly hatched larvae are active and can live a week without food. The adult cigarette beetles can fly.

Larva, pupa and full-grown cigarette beetle
Fig. 5.39. Cigarette beetle, a: larva, b: pupa, c: adult, d: side view, e: antennae.

Cigarette beetles in tobacco warehouses are typically exterminated by fumigation. It is also possible to exploit the sensitivity to low temperatures. 15 days at 0 ° C, 7 days at – 4 ° C or just 1 day at – 12 ° C will kill all stages of this species.

Food Pests
Introduction
An old problem
Competition for food
Pests can ruin stored goods
Why not just eat the insects
Some insects are unhealthy to eat
Allergy to pests
Transmission of infectious diseases
Where do pests come from?
Synanthrope species
(1) The house dust mite and the sugar mite
(2) The firebrat and the silverfish
(3) The German cockroach and the forest cockroach
(4) The rust-red flour beetle and the confused flour beetle
(5) The merchant grain beetle and the saw-toothed grain beetle
(6) The cigarette beetle and the drugstore beetle
(7) The rice weevil and the granary weevil
(8) The pharaoh ant and the common black ant
History of the dark flour beetle
Pests in bird's nests
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Mites
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The sugar mite
The common house mite
The Lardoglyphus zacheri
The prune mite
The cheese mite
The house dust mite
The Cheyletus eruditus
Silverfish
The Silverfish
The firebrat
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The German cockroach
The Oriental cockroach
The brown-banded cockroach
The American cockroach
The extermination of cockroaches
Crickets
Earwigs
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The Mediterranean flour moth
The warehouse moth
Tropical warehouse moth
The brown house moth
The Indian meal moth
Grain beetles
The saw-toothed grain beetle
The merchant grain beetle
The rust-red grain beetle
Flour beetles
The yellow mealworm beetle
The lesser mealworm beetle
The dark flour beetle
The confused flour beetle
The rust-red flour beetle
The bolting cloth beetle
Furniture beetles
The drugstore beetle
The cigarette beetle
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The rice weevil
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The dermestid beetle
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The red-legged ham beetle
The red-breasted copra beetle
The black-legged ham beetle
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The Australian spider beetle
The white-marked spider beetle
The golden spider beetle
The smooth spider beetle
Plaster beetles
Flies
The common house fly
The lesser house fly
Blowflies
The grey flesh fly
The cheese skipper
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The common black ant
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Wasps
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E: The carrion niche
Prevention and Control, Integrated Control
A. Inspection of the company and its environment
The environment
The premises
Examination of raw materials and food on site
Sampling
Laboratory methods for detection of pests in food
B. Statement of the problem
C. Prevention and control
1. Proper organisation of the company
2. Proper operation
3. Exclusion, proofing buildings
4. Packaging
5. Non-chemical control measures
6. Chemical control
Resistance
D: Effective monitoring and communication
Appendix
Literature
Extermination with poison
International trade
Colouration of small, pale animals
Index

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