Wasp or hornet Usually there is no doubt. When we talk about the wasp and its nest, we talk about the familiar black and yellow insect with that recognisable waist. The only problem is that there are other kinds of wasps like wood wasps, sawflies and many more. If you want to be accurate, you […]

A single rat can be an intelligent and charming pet. Rats are useful animals, and certain places in the world, the rats that eat the villagers waste are used as a protein supplement to the diet. But mostly we regard the rat as the ultimate pest, with their appetite for our food, their ability to […]

Most of us can agree that a flock of pigeons flying around the church tower is a beautiful sight, and there is something nice about feeding the pigeons in the square. On the other hand, it is clear that they can be a serious nuisance when present in large numbers in places where we do […]

If you find small, irregular holes in the best and most expensive woolen goods, it is likely the museum beetle larvae (the family Anthrenus) that has gnawed in them. They do not – just like clothes moth – leave traces of fibre strands or visible faeces, so it may initially seem a bit puzzling. The […]

Indian meal moths are also called chocolate moths Among the moths that can go into our foods, the Indian meal moth (Plodia interpunctella) is most likely to occur in households, shops and food. It is actually a pretty little butterfly, 1 cm. from antennae to the rear. The wings are two-toned, the front third is […]

Cockroaches, that look exactly like the ones we see today, have existed for at least 250 million years. Their way of life has probably been more or less as the current cockroaches, except that it would take approximately 250 million years before the first cockroach got the chance to eat crumbs in kitchens. Only a […]

Clothes moths belong to man’s oldest companions. In the Bible, they are used as an image of transitoriness, and our short lives are described as: “-clothes that are eaten up by moths”. The small bronze-shining clothes moth (Tineola bisselliella) prefer hidden lives in dark corners, drawers and cupboards. They are poor fliers, and it is […]

The animal world is not static as nothing in nature is. Species disappear and others emerge. The brown carpet beetle (Attagenus smirnovi) is one of the relatively new animals in our animal life. It is native to Africa. In Europe it was first discovered in 1961, when E.S. Smirnov (hence the species name) found a […]

The adult bed bug (Cimex lectularius) is 4-5 mm. the body is oval and rust-red. It has no wings, which makes the abdomen clearly visible. The bed bug is not a louse, but a kind of tick. Most ticks feed on plant sap, but the bed bug uses its sharp proboscis to suck blood. About […]

The bacon beetle is part of the dermestid beetles. There are about 25 species of dermestid beetles in Northern Europe. The bacon beetle is one of the best known. Most dermestid beetles feed on various parts of dead animals. They do not belong to the first wave of scavengers, but they arrive later and take […]

Ants have a special position among insects. They are so many of them and they live in communities that are easily comparable with our own. About ten thousand different species of ants are known today, and the ants have over time adapted to almost every conceivable habitat, just except the completely naked Arctic. Ants have […]