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Shiny spider beetle

(Latin: Gibbium psylloides) A less active spider beetle, wich crawls around slowly on it’s long legs. It may attack cereals and cereal products in, for example, India, where it is sometimes a pest. In Europe it is occasionally found in imported goods.

The smooth spider beetle

Latin: Gibbium psylloides The smooth spider beetle lacks hair and is rather reminiscent of a small glass drop that moves slowly around on its long legs. It occurs as a grain pest in warm countries such as India. Like the other spider beetles it can live of a wide range of dry animal and vegetable […]

Spider beetles

(Latin:  Ptinidae) These beetles have a certain resemblance to spiders, for they have very long legs and a marked constriction between the thorax and the arched abdomen. Many of the species are practically speaking omnivorous. The newly hatched larvae are very active, but once they reach a source of food they soon become fat and […]

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