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…its yellow and black stripes, elongated, pill-shaped body and transparent wings. However, mining bees are generally smaller than ordinary honeybees, but a few species are the size of honeybees. In terms of color, some of them may be roughly the same shade as honeybees, while others have a darker, yellow hue. In addition, some of them are more hairy, so you could confuse them with very thin bumblebees. However, by far the fewest Danes have an eye…

…female will dig herself in between the back through a passage – called the mother passage – where she lays her eggs. These eggs are laid in small dents and pits in the passage. Once the eggs have hatched, the larvae take over the work themselves. The larvae gnaw their own small passages from the mother passage. The small bark beetle larvae live mostly on the liquid that comes from the tree and which leaks into the passages. This is a real meal for…

…tened body instead of a spherical or egg-shaped body that most flies have. Its skin is also leathery instead of the familiar, metallic-shiny surface of many flies. The louse fly has strong legs. Unfortunately, there are several species of louse flies, such as the lizard fly, also called Crataerina pallida, and the swallow bite, also called Crataerina hirundinis, which cannot fly. This is because their shape has evolved to be parasites on birds and…

…feed on aphids during the warmer months. But they can also be found in fruits when the weather starts to get colder. The Harlequin ladybug is more aggressive than its native cousins, which can lead to biodiversity problems. If the harlequin ladybug eats too much of the food that the two-spotted and seven-spotted ladybird should eat, we may risk losing our native ladybug to this more aggressive species. Damage Beside the worries that the presence…

…to pupate. It typically takes 7 days for the adult cat flea to come out of its cocoon, but under adverse conditions it can take several months. The adult cat flea can now jump on fury animals and humans.  Although cat fleas are named after cats, dogs can also easily get cat fleas. In fact, cat fleas are more common in both dogs and cats than the so-called dog fleas, Ctenocephalides canis. There is a particularly high risk that both pets and humans…

…common, is the Lepisma saccharina, which can be up to one centimeter long with the silvery body. The other species is Thermobia domestica, known as the oven fish, which can be up to two centimeters long. This one is not as shiny as the ordinary silverfish. The silverfish has two long antennae and three tail wires. The tail threads are less than half a body length. Biology and behavior The silverfish thrives in humid environments. Which is why you…

…has emptied. Thrips are laid as eggs; the laying will typically take place without fertilization. The eggs will be placed in selected location with a laying tube that is a sawtooth and can penetrate the plant tissue in which the eggs are laid. Thrips find it difficult to fly, therefore they will only as flying pest on calm windless and warm days. Damage The pest can in some cases have serious consequences for plants and flowers, especially on orna…

…g will make cabbage on the woodlouse, which will thereby become extinct by itself. They can then be removed with a vacuum cleaner.   Sometimes the reason for a large number of woodlouse can be a hatchery near the home. For instance, in a compost pile, garden waste, a pile of straw or the like. Such piles should be removed, which can remedy the problem. It may be necessary to resort to chemical treatments. And here an insect powder will often be ab…

…d winged booklice, e.g. Atropus pulsatorius, have small but non-functional wings. Booklice run about actively when disturbed, with characteristic jerky movements, and they can also make small, rather clumsy, jumps. As the name implies, booklice are found between sheets of paper in libraries and archives, and also behind loose wallpaper and in herbaria. They do not eat the paper itself, although they may feed on the glue in glazed paper, but they s…