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Australian spider beetle

…ion to the Australian spider beetle also counts family members such as the common thief beetle (Ptinus fur) and the brass thief (Niptus hololeucus), both of which are common pest in Denmark. Appearance While the Australian spider beetle is still a larva, it can grow between 3 to 5 millimeters long. The larva has a curved shape with quite small legs and a dark head, while the rest of its body has a yellowish white hue. A fully developed Australian…

Brown house moth

…( Latin: Hofmannophila pseudospretella) Brown house moth and larva The larva of this moth is sometimes to be found in grain warehouses or among foodstuffs, but it is primarily a pest of textiles…

House centipede

…House centipede This animal has extremely long legs which are used as a kind of capture net when hunting insects and other invertebrates. It occurs naturally in central and southern Europe where it is frequently seen indoors, but is only found very occasionally in northern Europe, having been brought m from further south (see also p. 34)….

House centipede

House centipede (Latin: Scutigera coleoptrata) This centipede comes from the Mediterranean countries where it is often found indoors. It has been recorded a few times in northern Europe. Like other centipedes this is a predator which kills its prey by using the foremost limbs which are modified to form a pair of poison claws. In contrast to the small centipedes found in the garden, this species can, when disturbed, bite in areas where the skin is…

Pests in House and Home

…an ordinary good lens. The book has been written not only for the private house owner, but should be equally useful to all those who in their daily life have to deal with problems involving harmful animals in houses, shops, stores and factories. Far from all animals encountered indoors are harmful, so the book should also appeal to all those who have a general interest in biology. The book was originally planned in collaboration with Preben Dahls…

House sparrow

…y a harmless, quite attractive small bird when it builds in the eaves of a house (p. 183), but in food factories and stores it can do a lot of damage, and has been called a winged rat! Sparrows eat foods, foul them with their droppings and peck holes in packaging materials. They find their way in through any small hole and soon start to build their nests in the building. The first step in combating sparrows is to destroy their nests and prevent th…

Millipede

…powder. You should powder the places where this pest is able to enter the house, and in this way make sure that the can not the house through cracks and crevices. If you want to treat against millipedes that have already entered the house, you can also do so with insect powder. To treat in the most efficient way, you should powder door openings, door frames, window frames, panel cracks, and similar places, where the pest might seek shelter. Howev…

The stable fly

…, but its close relative the stable fly, Stomoxys calcitrans. Fig. 41. The house fly (left) and the stable fly (right). (Kemper) It is mostly common in the fall, but can also be a nuisance during spring and summer. A stable fly looks like an ordinary house fly, but is characterized by its hard, pointy proboscis which clearly sticks out of the front of the head – like a stick. When sitting on a wall, you can recognize the black flies because their…

Dog fleas and cat fleas

…each year. It is not known why cat fleas have become so common in our parts of the world. The number of pets has increased and at the same time, it has become increasingly common for the animals to have access to all rooms of the house. Another contributing factor is the increasingly common wall-to-wall carpeting. It is difficult to remove flea eggs and larva from the carpets just by cleaning them. From this perspective, the flea problem is a sel…

Common gnat

…(Latin: Culex pipiens) Common gnat This is a small, brownish mosquito or gnat, often found spending the winter in large numbers in, for instance, damp cellars. Sometimes it will take to the • wing during the winter if disturbed, but fortunately it seldom bites humans, evidently preferring the blood of birds….

Bug Indentification

…eetle Coffee bean weevil Common bean weevil Common black ant Common earwig Common house fly Confused flour beetle Corn weevil Cricket Dark flour beetle Dermestid beetle Drugstore beetle Female odd beetle Flesh fly Flour mite Flour moth and larva Fruitfly Fungus mite German cockroach with egg capsule Golden spider beetle Granary weevil Groundnut beetle Tysk kakerlak, hun Tysk kakerlak, han Ham beetle house fly pupa house longhorn house marten excre…

Common gnat

…Common gnat (Latin: Culex pipiens) This small mosquito does not usually bite humans, but evidently prefers the blood of birds. Its habits are more or less the same as those of the preceding species, and specimens may also be found spending the winter in damp cellars, often in quite large numbers….

Common bean weevil

Common bean weevil (Latin: Acanthoscelides obtectus) This beetle mainly infests beans, but it may also occur in other related crops. It can lay eggs in fresh beans in the fields or in dried stored beans. The female lays several eggs in each bean. When the larvae are fully grown they gnaw their way out towards the surface of the bean and pupate, leaving a thin shell between themselves and the outside world. When the adult beetles are ready to emer…

Stock mites

…l stock mites is to detect them. Either you can get help from professionals, or you can try a slightly less accurate, but still cheaper and faster method. By sifting a handful of the grains, dust will sprinkle down. This dust can then be examined for storage mites. Once storage mites have been detected in one’s grain, dry the grain, making sure that the water content will be lowered to around 13.5-14% or lower. The water content in rapeseed should…

Flour mites

…which the located in. Biology and behavior Flour mites are one of the most common mites, and many people will at some point ingest them. They live in flour, but you can also find them in dust, grains, seeds, hay, and straw. They feed on fungi, which is formed when moisture occurs in flour or grain products. Therefore, in nature, they can also live by eating fungal growth, which decomposes organic material. Damage Flour mites are only really a prob…

Frequency

…blem relatively under control. However, cat fleas have become increasingly common since the 1970s.They have become common and will probably continue to be so for a few more years. J F M A M J J A S O N D 0 = Above average / 1 = Maximum 0 0 1 0 0 0 Dog fur mite 1 0 0 Bird flea 0 1 0 0 0 Pidgeon tick 1 0 0 Stable flies 0 1 0 0 Kissing bugs 0 1 0 0 Swift lou…

Powderpost beetles

…es which is intended for the purpose, in the form that protect against the house buck and borer beetles. Should the powderpost beetles attack, use the approved wood preservatives. As with the preventive treatment, the product must be suitable for protection against house bucks and borer beetles. Be aware that surface-treated wood such as lacquered and painted wood does not have the ability to absorb the agent sufficiently. This is because the prot…

House centipede

…This animal has extremely long legs which are used as a kind of capture net when hunting insects and other invertebrates. It occurs naturally in central and southern Europe where it is frequently seen indoors, but is only found very occasionally in northern Europe, having been brought from further south…

Centipede

…is first and foremost important to figure out why. Humid conditions in the house, bark chips or many dead leaves along the house if typical reasons to the migration. To solve the problem on a long-term basis, the cause must be investigated so that the centipedes does not return. Controlling the centipedes indoors, use insect powder along panels as well as in cracks and fissures in all the rooms where they have appeared the most. Be aware that neit…

Animals that merely live in the house

…in us personally nor in the stores of food and other commodities with which we surround ourselves. These include several animals that make use of the favourable conditions offered by houses. Some also use our houses as hunting grounds, feeding on the various invertebrate animals which they find there. As a rule these are animals which in the wild live in hollow trees, rock crevices or similar places….

Where does it come from?

…it is still possible to experience being bitten by bat bugs if you share a house with a colony of bats. There is also a suggestion as to where in the World the common bed bug has evolved. This must have happened in a warm area. Bed bugs thrive best at temperatures of between 25 and 28 degrees Celsius and if the temperature gets below 13 degrees Celsius, their development comes to a standstill. It is therefore concluded that our bed bugs have evolv…

Earwigs

…n need of locations, where they can sit dark and protected during the day. Common earwig At night they come out and eat. They are almost omnivorous with a menu that includes both live and dead plants, carrion, small insects and mites. Invasions of earwigs will take place in the late summer. To prevent earwigs from entering a building where you do not want them, you can take steps to remove their living spaces in the building’s immediate vicinity….

Itch mites

…nt host animals. The different types of Sarcoptes scabiei transmit between different kinds of host animals, but they can only breed on host animals of the same kind as the one they came from. Scabies is characterized by intense itching and rash where the mites live. You cannot feel the mites digging in the skin. The disease scabies is the host’s reaction to the mites in the skin. Controlling the itch mites is carried out by applying a pesticide th…

Water mites

…anaries and other places where there are many insect larvae. Another water mite species live on the deathwatch beetles. Attacking people Water mites crawl around in search of a larva, or they move passively through the air with dust. If they end up on a person, they will hang on and try to inject their digestive enzymes into the skin. This results in an itchy, allergic skin reaction, similar to that of fur mite bites. They typically bite the hands…

Mites

…just like insects, much of what is told about insects actually also cover mites. Mites look like tiny spiders and have eight legs. There is no head and no abdomen. A mite is just a bladder-shaped body which has legs on the underside and the front two pairs of feeding limbs stick out. Mites are also missing facet eyes, auditory system and wings. With mites, as with insects, males and females mate. Female mites lay eggs and from those eggs come tin…

Follicle mites in humans

…s are found in humans, namely Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis. The mites are not common in young people, however, as people get older, they become increasingly common, and all people of 60-70 years are infested with detectable levels of follicle mites. They are most commonly found on the nose, where an average of 50% of the follicles host a mite. Eyelash follicles are not as commonly occupied by the follicle mites – only a 10% of the folli…

Bryobia praetiosa

…les are never seen so the species must breed parthogenetically. These mites cause absolutely no damage in the house and they very quickly die in the dry climate. They are completely dependent upon the presence of plants on which they can feed. Normally they are only seen in houses where the lawn goes right up to the walls, so the most rational method of control is to create a break between lawn and wall. This can easily be done by having a strip o…

Biology

Fig. 70. A pigeon mite seen from above and from below. Pigeon mites are not engorged when they feed, but they are thicker as the dorsal side bulges out. (Dusbabek & Rosicky) When a European pigeon tick is hatched from the egg, it is less than l mm long. It immediately seeks out a pigeon or a young pigeon to which it latches on and feeds on for 2-10 days. Then, once it is full, it leaves its host to crawl into a hiding place where it can digest an…

Bed mites

bad mite (Latin: Dermatophagoides) These mites feed on the scales which are continually falling from our skin. They prefer a high humidity (80%) and temperature (25° C), and so are particularly common in beds. Surprisingly enough it is only quite recently that the presence of these mites has been observed. The discovery was made during an investigation of the causes of asthma. It had long been known that some patients react violently to house dus…

Prevention and control of birds

…hey move on to a new place. Feed It makes a big difference that you do not feed these birds. It is not the small feed boards that you supply with modest amounts of feed in order to appreciate the animals that must stop. It is the wastage taking place at wharfs, loading ramps and silos and these kinds of places where pigeons and sparrows always thrive. Not all pigeon infested properties are built with classical columns, but there are always shelves…