The thief – the pretender is related to the genus Ptinus, meets up to 20 species. The most common in the hives are Ptinus fur L. and Ptinus raptor Str. The Ptinus fur beetle is 4 mm long, 1.5 times wide male, 2.5 mm female. The male is cylindrical, the female is oval in shape, […]
The earwig (Forficula auricularia L.) is from the order of the skin-winged, has an elongated body; On the head are big eyes, mouth organs gnawing and directed forward. Antennae long, filiform, with clearly defined segments. Fore wings are hard, short, without venation. The abdomen at the end has “tongs” consisting of two solid hooks. The […]
Hamster kozheed (Dermestes lardarius L.) – a beetle 8 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, black, with transverse grayish-brown stripes on the anterior part of the elytra, on a strip of 6 black dots. Eggs he lays in the hive litter, their dimensions are 2 X 0.6 mm. From the egg, a larva is excreted, which […]
If the bee-wolf is an armed knight-robber, then the bee-louse (brow) is by nature not at all like him. First of all, it must be said that it also resembles a louse like a wolf philanthropist. It can rather be attributed to the genus of flies that have lost their wings due to a parasitic […]
1 – the chamber; 2 – pipe; 3 – canvas sleeve; 4 – wire, 5 – bait. I want to offer you a simple and fairly effective rat-trap. It is simple: we insert a canvas sleeve into a pipe with a diameter of 50 mm, in which we fasten several rows of a steel spring […]
I understood that when rodents are not alive, they will not live. That’s why we must do everything to ensure that there are no debris and food residues in the room and in the yard. Grain and products should be stored in such containers, where the mice will not climb. It is good to glaze […]
Wax moths are called night butterflies, the caterpillars of which feed on wax. There are two types of moths: large and small. A large wax moth (moth, clap, Gal-leria mellonella) is a 20 mm long butterfly with a width of 30-35 mm in the wingspan. Fore wings ashy-gray and yellow-brown (to the posterior margin), and […]
A small wax moth (Achroea grisella F.), is distributed as widely as a large one. It is somewhat smaller than the large one: the female in the span of the wings is 23 mm; male in the span of the wings 18 mm. Color of the wings is uniform, ash color with oily gloss; they […]
General view of a mousetrap (charged) I do not know who the inventor of the original mousetrap, which I have been using for a long time, but even before the war, my parents and neighbors had such self-made traps that successfully destroyed rodents. The device operates silently and without a miss. It is not difficult […]