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SPIDER BEETLE LARVAE

behave similar to dermestid beetles, but their pupation tunnels are smaller.

Pests in House and Home

Introduction

Houses as animals habitats
Animal names and systematics
Arthropod structure
Arthropod senses and behaviour
Where do invertebrates come from?
Arthropod development

Colour plates

Animals that bite, sting and irritate

Where do the biting and irritating organisms come from?

Prevention of bites and stings

Protection by nets
Deterrent substances
Insecticides

Invertebrates and hygiene

Invertebrates carrying disease or causing annoyance
Invertebrates and the spread of disease

Animals in foods

Prevention of damage by pests in kitchens and food factories

Controlling pests in kitchens and food factories

Animals that attack textiles

Small moths
Common clothes moth
Case bearing clothes moth
Brown house moth
Tapestry moth
Dermestids
Carpet beetle
Museum beetles
Spider beetles
The common house mite
Silverfish

Precautions against infestations by pests of textiles

Control of textile pests

Animals in paper, leather and plastics

Slugs
Woodlice
Silverfish
Booklice

Animals in timber

The structure of timber

Animals that gnaw timber in buildings

Identification of pests in timber

Natural enemies of timber pests

Chalcids
Opilo domesticus
Ant beetle

Prevention of attacks by timber pests

Control of timber pests

Fungus in timber

Prevention of fungal attacks

Animals in masonry and insulation

Davies's Colletes

Animals in thatch

Caredrina clavipalpis

Animals that gnaw metal

Animals that merely live in the house

Slugs
False scorpion
Harvestmen
Spiders
Common house spider
Steatoda bipunctata
Cinifi o fenestralis
Zygiella x-notata (= Z. litterata)
Zebra spider
House cricket
Empicoris culiciformis
Fungus beetles
Wasps
Bees
Honey bee
Bumble bees
Solitary bees
Patchwork leafcutter
Mason bee
Aphomia sociella
Bathroom fly
Birds
Swift
House sparrow
Rock dove
Jackdaw
Kestrel
Owls
Bats
Beech marten

Animals that come inside for the winter

Lacewing
Cluster fly
Musca autumnalis
Butterflies
Thaumatoniyia notata
Gnats and mosquitoes
Theobaldia annulata1
Common gnat
Butterflies1
Seven-spotted ladybird
Wasps
Mice
House mouse
Yellow-necked mouse

Occasional visitors

Grey worm
Woodlice11
Centipedes
Lithobius forficatus
Geophilus carpophagus11
House centipede
Millipedes11
Bryobia praetiosa11
Gamasid mites11
Springtails11
Thrips1
Earwig
Dusky cockroach
Cone bug
Carabus nemoralis
Devil's coach-horse
Black vine-weevil
Cis boleti
Hoverfly
Drone fly larva
Crane fly

On pests in general

Methods of treatment

Risks of using poisons

Where to go for further guidance

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