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Symptoms

…may also be more generalized itching associated with skin areas where itch mites are not common. Detection It is difficult to diagnose itch mites. Doctors estimate that, at first, a quarter of the cases are wrongly diagnosed. When the itch mites are well established, in 9 out of 10 cases, looking carefully at the hands and wrists can make the diagnosis. Here are the fertilized females burrows appear as gray, wavy lines on the skin that end in a ti…

Life cycle

…s or females. Females and males are active and are 3-5 mm long. Males only feed for short periods of time before searching for females that are ready to mate in the dog fur. While males retain their shape after mating, females are engorged. They stay latched to the dog’s skin for 6-50 days and continue to grow as the eggs develop in their bodies. Females that are ready to mate are blue-gray and nearly 1 cm long. They then crawl up walls to find su…

What insects live off and live in

…body also has an impact on what foods they can exploit. Booklice and sugar mites can live on the surface of flour, but are too fragile to dig into the flour. Those booklice that are seen on top of an otherwise untouched bag of flour are thus the total number of booklice in that bag of flour. Flour mites and confused flour beetles are better suited to dig into flour and are not always seen on the surface. In densely packed grain live only insects t…

Life cycle

…e busy gathering wood pulp to the ever-growing nest and hunting insects to feed to the larvae. The nest is spherical, and built by a grayish paper substance. It is usually located in bushes or hollow timber, or it is built into a cavity in the ground or in a stone wall. Hornets often find suitable nesting sites in attics, cavity walls or outbuildings. In the autumn, the hornet society stops working. The hornets no longer feed the larvae. They roam…

Animals in paper, leather and plastics

…ood-lice, earwigs and certain moth larvae. Various dermestid beetle larvae feed on raw hides, but freshly tanned leather is a very poor source of nutriment. Here, as with paper, damp leather which goes mouldy becomes more attractive as a food. To an increasing extent artificial materials such as nylon and other plastics are replacing natural products in everyday life. Many of these plastics can be broken down by bacteria and fungi, and thus re-ent…

Black vine-weevil

…er, and like all weevils it is vegetarian. The larvae live in the soil and feed on the underground parts of plants. The adults avoid the light and hide themselves during the day, often in the surface soil at the base of a plant, but they emerge at night to feed. They attack many different kinds of plant and may cause considerable damage to fruit trees and bushes. These beetles are sometimes brought indoors, usually with pot plants. If only a few a…

Fox

…ll as the fact that they are breeding their pups during this period. Never feed a hungry looking fox, as this only leads to more hungry foxes coming to one’s door searching for food. They will multiply faster if they are able to obtain easy feed. Prevention and pest control It is a shame that the fox recently has received a bad reputation, because they are a good to have in the wild. Their survival instinct has led them to urban and residential ar…

Predatory beetles

…any different species. However, there are also some predatory beetles that feed on fungi, algae, and decaying plants. In context of the ecosystem, predatory beetles are not considered pests. Predominantly, they are beneficial animals that hold the population of smaller insects that prey on our crops at a minimum. Appearance Since there are so many different predatory beetles, they can vary quite a bit in appearance. Some of the largest species in…

Soft wood boring beetle

…, which forms the area between bark and wood. In this area, the larvae can feed on the inner part of the bark, just as they can devour the outer layers of the sapwood. If a conifer has been visited by larvae from the soft wood boring beetle, there will be visible signs. Under the bark, the larval passages will stand out clearly as approx. 1-millimeter-deep grooves, forming a large pattern in the wood. However, the grooves may be deeper than that….

Louse flies

…long. Although most flies feed on carrion and various waste, the louse fly feeds on the blood of different host animal. If you find a louse fly on your pet or yourself, you will most likely think that it is a louse or flea. They have the broad hind body that is typically known from louse, fleas, and other bloodsuckers. Biology and behavior Both females and males feed on blood, and they can often be found on birds. On chicks you will easily be able…

Bread beetle

…either cooking or pantry. The bread beetle larva is almost omnivorous, but feeds mostly on starchy plant products such as bread, seeds, spices, nuts, and pasta etc. There have also been examples of them damaging books and stationery. Prevention and pest control When fighting the bread beetle, it is first and foremost a matter of finding the place where the larvae develop. Foods that have been attacked by the larvae should be discarded or processed…

Human flea

…lt human flea. Biology and behavior Both males and females of this species feed on blood from their host or host animal. Therefore they also mate while they are on the host. When the female lays eggs, the eggs usually fall off the host, as eggs from human fleas are smooth. The egg will then lie in the environment where it hatches. A flea larva will feed on whatever organic material it can find, as well as excrement from the adult fleas that are le…

Fungus beetles

…ars, outhouses and store-rooms where the humidity is high, and it is not uncommon for them to be seen in new houses, before the walls have dried out. They sometimes also live in damp parts of houses that are otherwise quite dry. For instance, if a cupboard is standing up against a cold external wall, mould may grow on the wall itself and on the back of the clipboard, and this will provide food for the beetles and their larvae. Plaster beetle, male…

European pigeon tick bites

The pigeon tick prefers to feed on pigeons. When in lack of a more suitable host, the tick may feed on people and pets. It’s almost exclusively the adults and nymphs that bite people. A bite from the large pigeon tick can be quite the experience. The bite is clumsy and can be painful. From the bite wound, a wide, pink, slightly swollen area may appear. Later, color will turn red or reddish-blue. Both the color as well the swelling can stay on the…

The red-legged ham beetle

…adult lasts just over a month. At temperatures below 9 ° C reproduction stops completely. Outdoors in Northern Europe, the beetles only produce one generation per year. In warehouses and factories red-legged ham beetles especially infest compound feed, fish and bone meal, as well as milk and egg powder….

Booklice

…paper and in herbaria. They do not eat the paper itself, although they may feed on the glue in glazed paper, but they subsist primarily on the moulds growing on the paper. In- deed, the presence of numerous booklice is a sign that the paper is being kept too damp. Some booklice can produce a ticking sound by striking the abdomen against the substrate (p. 214). In the present context, the term bookworm refers to the larvae of certain wood-boring be…

Debris bug

…Debris bug (Latin: Lyctocoris campestris) This bug also comes from birds’ nests where it lives as a predator on the numerous small invertebrates, such as moth larvae, which feed on the debris that accumulates in the nests. Like the martin bug it may occasionally find its way into the house and may sometimes attack people when they are asleep….

Warehouse or cocoa moth

…‘worms’ in the chocolate. The infection may also, of course, take place in a store or shop. The larvae cannot penetrate hermetically sealed packages, but if there is the slightest gap the female moth, attracted by scent, will lay eggs• nearby and the newly hatched larvae will crawl in and start to feed. This moth can also eat tobacco. Remarkably enough it can tolerate nicotine and, together with the tobacco beetle, it is one of the most serious pe…

Thaumatoniyia notata

…gar flies (p. 80), but they are a paler yellow; they do not visit foodstuffs and, in fact, are quite harmless indoors. These small flies will nearly always be attracted to the upper storeys of a house and very often to houses covered with ivy or Virginia creeper, for this type of dense vegetation is their natural habitat. The larvae feed on various grasses…

Mould fauna

Most of the storage mites, booklice and house flies which can be seen in foods are associated with degradation of damp, dead plant material in nature. Different materials such as hay, straw, grain, flour, rapeseed and oats are infested by practically the same mould-eating insects. This is due to the fact that these insects are able to eat various types of mould. In feed compounds mould fauna is supplemented with species that are particularly favo…

Bacon beetle

…t stood near their food. The bacon beetle used to be a feared pest in many households. It went into winter supplies as dried fish, cheese and smoked goods. Today, as these goods are kept more appropriately, the bacon beetle has only a tiny role in households. In companies that work with dried fish, hides and dry food the bacon beetle and its close relative the Dermestes haemorrhoidalis still cause problems. If a single bacon beetle appears in a ho…

Introduction

…provided excellent living quarters for many animal species, whether in the house itself or in the outhouses used by the domestic animals. There was also woodwork to gnaw and textiles and furs to eat. The buildings provided new hunting grounds for animals such as spiders, and also places for nesting and spending the winter for many animals which had previously used hollow trees and rock crevices. Throughout the ages these man-made facilities increa…

Blowflies

…sms. On average, there are three times as many bacteria on blowflies as on house flies. It is among others the bacteria of the genus Clostridium and Salmonella. Blowflies can smell meat and carcasses at a distance of several kilometres. In industries working with things that tempt blowflies, effective measures must be taken to block them out (see page 164). Blowflies can come from birds’ nests with dead chicks or from dead mice or rats under floor…

Suspected brown dog tick infestation

…tiny. In the middle is a male. Of the four females (right), one is yet to feed. Silhouettes are in natural size. Ticks on a dog are almost always caster bean ticks that just need to be removed. Caster bean ticks lose the ability to find a host when the temperature drops below 7 °C. If the dog has ticks when it is significantly colder outside, it may be brown dog ticks. High levels of infestation in the house and ticks (especially blood-filled, gr…

Springtails

…on dunghills and on the surface of lakes and pools. They often wander into houses for no apparent reason, either from compost, from decaying leaves in the gutters or from mossy roofs. Springtail If they survive indoors in a house this suggests that it is too damp, as for example in some cellars. In rooms that are other- wise dry, springtails sometimes find suit- able living conditions behind cupboards standing against damp external walls. They cau…

Springtails

…on dunghills and on the surface of lakes and pools. They often wander into houses for no apparent reason, either from compost, from decaying leaves in the gutters or from mossy roofs. If they survive indoors in a house this suggests that it is too damp, as for example in some cellars. In rooms that are other- wise dry, springtails sometimes find suit- able living conditions behind cupboards standing against damp external walls. They cause no damag…

Bathroom fly

…ch is continually damp but not covered with water the whole time, and they feed on any organic matter present and on bacteria, algae and fungi. These little flies are naturally rather annoying to have around but they do not sting nor do they cause any damage. In the filters of purification plants they can be regarded as beneficial, because there the larvae help to break down organic waste. In the house they are best controlled by removing the slim…

Golden spider beetle

…Golden spider beetle (Latin: Niptus hololeucus) In this beetle the body is closely beset with yellow hairs. It can feed on almost anything and when it appears in a house, the source of infection may be dead chicks in a bird’s nest or little collections of seeds in the loft. Now and again this beetle has been recorded as a pest of textiles….

The Australian spider beetle

…n the things larvae can live on, that is, all kinds of dried plants: corn, feed, flour, grains, cocoa, spices and herbal substances. MBM is also suitable. On ceilings and empty warehouses, Australian spider beetles can live of insect remains as well as mouse and rat droppings. Australian spider beetles can also live in birds’ nests and dry carrion. When the larvae have become so big that they are ready to pupate, they leave the food. They can, jus…