Who is it? Help us identify our neighbors!

Geographical supplement about "vonyuchek": Volga region, Penza

Bethylidae-wasps such as

These are specialized parasites of beetles. Once they appeared somewhere, so did the beetles. Most likely somewhere in cereals, dried herbs, etc.

Good day! Who can know this "animal"? Adults are almost a millimeter long. They live in the bathroom.

Nogohvostki.

yes, I've already found everything about them - the main thing is that they don't bite))

thank you all for your help)

I have a couple of questions about betilid tenants.
1) Can betilids parasitize on the Surinamese fly-eater or on moth caterpillars?
2) To get rid of the wasps, is it enough to get rid of the beetles that the betilids parasitize? Or do we need to etch them out somehow?

In general, the protective mechanism of betilides works just fine! I no longer have any desire to push them or bother them in any way. It stinks like hell...

On the fruit moth, they are unlikely to develop, but on the flour eater it is easy. Get rid of the beetles and their parasites will disappear.

Hello!

In the evening I found a moth help me determine the vid

Hello!

In the evening I found a moth help me determine the species

Scoliopteryx libatrix (Linnaeus, 1758)

Tempus, and what does it eat ,how to determine the gender???

Thank you in advance

Tempus, and what does it eat ,how to determine the gender???

You can feed it with a solution of honey in water.
Without experience, you will not be able to determine the sex of a live butterfly. You can try to see the clues on the wings. The male has one lead, the female has a bundle of several.

Hello!
In the evening I found a moth

You can feed it with a solution of honey in water.

I would not recommend feeding it anything. S. libatrix is a wintering species, it is unlikely that it will feed at this time, it needs to create suitable conditions for wintering. I think the best solution in this case is to let her go back to nature. She'll be better off there.

Tempus, a if she eats the raspberry jam I gave, she eats

She lives on my balcony

You can feed it with a solution of honey in water.
Without experience, you will not be able to determine the sex of a live butterfly. You can try to see the clues on the wings. The male has one lead, the female has a bunch of several.

And where are the leads on which wings?

And where are the leads on which wings?

People help

People help

You have to look under your wings. Hooks are special long bristles on the rear wings (at the base), which serve to adhere to the front ones. Here is the principle:
Drawing
Here's what it looks like in real life (another family):
Male - one bristle
Female - two bristles (or more)
This will have to torment the butterfly. Among other things, the clues may not be immediately visible, they may be covered up. Is the sheepskin worth making?

P.S. M. B. it is interesting: near St. Petersburg, tooth-winged scoops spend the winter, for example, in the Sablinsky "caves" (there are more of them there in winter than all the others). They are attached there exactly in the zone of the "dew point" - they sit, hung with large drops. Very beautiful!

This post was edited by Dima DD-03.11.2013 00: 21

You have to look under your wings. Hooks are special long bristles on the rear wings (at the base), which serve to adhere to the front ones. Here is the principle:
Drawing
Here's what it looks like in real life (another family):
Male - one bristle
Female - two bristles (or more)
This will have to torment the butterfly. Among other things, the clues may not be immediately visible, they may be covered up. Is the sheepskin worth making?

P.S. M. B. it is interesting: near St. Petersburg, tooth-winged scoops spend the winter, for example, in the Sablinsky "caves" (there are more of them there in winter than all the others). They are attached there exactly in the zone of the "dew point" - they sit, hung with large drops. Very beautiful!

Thanks
I have a male

This post was edited by maximvolk-04.11.2013 18: 28

Everything is much simpler In Scoliopteryx libatrix (Linnaeus, 1758), the sex is easily distinguished by the antennae:
http://www.passions-papillons.com/Noctuida...r.html#libatrix

Everything is much simpler In Scoliopteryx libatrix (Linnaeus, 1758), the sex is easily distinguished by the antennae:
http://www.passions-papillons.com/Noctuida...r.html#libatrix

It doesn't reach the antennae so

This post was edited by maximvolk-04.11.2013 17: 25

And where can I find a female

It doesn't reach the antennae so

Can you see the lead?" Which is easier?

Where can I find a female

The same place where the male was found. The species overwinters in the adult stage and settles down for wintering very often near a person (entrances, attics, basements, etc.) .

I saw the females, but they were...
togo

Can you see the lead?" Which is easier?
The same place where the male was found. The species overwinters in the adult stage and settles down for the winter very often near a person (entrances, attics, basements, etc.).

Easier leads

And where is it better to look in new buildings or in high-rises old

I saw the first live owl toothwing I'm not kidding

Good afternoon, please tell me what kind of insect it is.

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The louse.

Dear entomologists, please give us some advice!
I found the larva and pupae of leatherworms (it looks like AttagenusunicolorBrahm) in a box with old children's things, put" for long-term storage " at the top of the cabinet. The room was dry and dusty. At the expense of regular wet cleaning, vacuuming, airing and cold understood.

I am concerned about 3 questions:
1. Going through things, I found in the box in addition to larvae:
green jagged particles of different sizes are pupae? Or what other beetles?
small seeds of 2-3 mm nutty color without legs are the remains of adult beetles?
Tiny dots of 1 mm or less in white, black, and crimson. Are these eggs? In the description, it seems to be found that the eggs of leatherworms are white and light yellow in color. Then what is it?
People who are familiar with the appearance of all the stages of life of these organisms, please help us figure out whether these are kozheaters alone in their various manifestations or some other organisms that still need to be identified. (A small winged fly was also found in the box)

2. Concerned about the survivability and extermination of eggs. She was sorting things out next to a mattress lying on the floor, which was covered with a woolen blanket, among other things. If the eggs were somehow spilled onto the bed when unwrapping things, how should it be disinfected? I really want to pass them all around the room.

3. We reluctantly threw out all the contents of the box. But I still have a whole closet full of stuff! Please tell me how to review them-check for eggs (everything is clear with larvae). If I suddenly find eggs or larvae, what do you recommend to do with things (given that these are children's things). Can such clothes be washed in the washing machine? Won't the eggs spread all over the farm? Maybe soak it in some kind of Whiteness-type chemical first? Do you really have to throw out all the contents of the cabinet?

4. How to process the cabinet on which the box-house of kozheedov was found?

Many thanks to everyone who can help with advice!

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Dear entomologists, please give us some advice!
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Many thanks to everyone who can help with advice!

These leatherheads live in every second (first?) at home, there are more of them somewhere, and less of them somewhere. If things have been lying in such untidy corners for a long time, then they will almost certainly have traces of their vital activity (as well as other small creatures that residents usually do not notice, but which always live in the apartment). Therefore, I personally treat all these skins-pieces-grains, etc. at home, like the rest of the dust and do not worry at all: I shook it out, vacuumed it, washed it... Just like usual! These findings can in no way be considered a reason to throw out. For example, if a child falls down on the street and gets his shirt dirty in the ground-this is a much bigger reason to throw it out than all these skins! If something happens, you can't get infected with anything from them, so you don't need to arrange any special disinfection for things.

"At the expense of regular wet cleaning, vacuuming, airing and cold understood." - this is the main, necessary and sufficient condition!

This post was edited by Dima DD - 12.11.2013 02: 27

Dima, thank you very much for your kind words, You comforted me!
And then I fell into a rush just the same. Their skins look very unpleasant.

Dear entomologists, please help with the definition of insects. They don't look like bed beetles. They bite us, the bites itch, take a very long time (more than a month), the moment of the bite is not felt, they do not look like bedbug bites (smaller in size, less redness, clear liquid in the middle). After a while, it starts to itch. Found on the bed, curtain, table, floor. No habitat was found. The house was treated with various preparations (pyrethroids, FOS, neonicotinoids). The effect is negligible. We destroyed most of the furniture and moved into a rented house. Help!!! The photo is only of this quality, I will make a scan tomorrow.

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in order, from the left:
1,2,3-cockroach nymphs
4,5-scales (bristle-tails)

They couldn't possibly have bitten anyone!

This post was edited by Triplaxxx - 14.11.2013 00: 59

They couldn't possibly have bitten anyone!

Cockroaches, theoretically, could

For black cockroaches (Blatta orientalis), biting was noted.

  

I'm thinking about the safety of leatherworms and their waste products. Here they are still wound up in boxes with clothes of the newborn. Do you think that for a newborn, all these eggs-pieces of cloth that the washing machine can't wash off-are absolutely safe? Will there be no irritation? Or are all these microparticles perfectly washed out by the machine?

I have here since the analysis of things itching o-very much increased. So I think whether it's just nervous, or what kind of irritation, or the neighbors there at the kozheeds in the dust, what inconspicuous ones could start up..

Dear entomologists, thank you for your tolerance of the common people!

Insect chitin is a common allergen - there may be problems. The child's clothes, of course, need to be washed.

In fact, everything is more complicated, what doctors call "chitin" actually has a complex composition, but this is already a "scientific" question.

Of course, in such old dusty places not only leatherheads live! The same dust mites, you can easily find where to read about them. The waste products of all of them can cause allergic reactions, after such a showdown, this is common. But the usual washing of things should be quite enough, everything should be washed.

I'm thinking about the safety of leatherworms and their waste products. Here they are still wound up in boxes with clothes of the newborn. Do you think that for a newborn, all these eggs-pieces of cloth that the washing machine can't wash off-are absolutely safe? Will there be no irritation? Or are all these microparticles perfectly washed out by the machine?

I have here since the analysis of things itching o-very much increased. So I think whether it's just nervous, or what kind of irritation, or the neighbors there at the kozheeds in the dust, what inconspicuous ones could start up..

Dear entomologists, thank you for your tolerance of the common people!

This is certainly not a scientific article, but scientists are not British either

Excessive cleanliness increases the risk of allergies

http://compulenta.computerra.ru/archive/bi...hnology/523779/