Who is it? Help us identify our neighbors!

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25.02.2007 16:13, bvg

It is not necessary to poison them at all: do not feed them - they will disappear by themselves. They feed on dead flies that have fallen under the bed, and do not touch the firewood. In addition, they behave sluggishly and are almost invisible, and they do not die on the windowsill, but fly to mate

The first appearances were noticed in the summer, during repairs on the bare plastered walls they stood out great, the whole floor was completely empty - no beds, no baseboards, they are also not visible on the first floor, so I still suspect the exhaust system in which the birds settled, we will try to evict them in the summer, but we still need to etch something-then - it is not possible to clean the entire charge. And at the expense of mating: some are just lying dead, and some barely move their legs, but somehow at a very pioneer distance from each other.
What are Pyrethroids ? Where can I buy them? Do they have a smell?

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27.02.2007 10:45, Aleksandr Ermakov

Pyrethroids are such a nasty thing that all living things die from (cockroaches, however, then partially come to life). They are named after the Dalmatian chamomile (Pyrethrum), but all are synthesized artificially. The smell of one of them (aktellik) - resembles the smell of donkey urine Sold in any store that sells chemical warfare agents. They have many varieties, and even each has several commercial names (you can view them on the Internet, on the websites of gardeners).

I knew intuitively that this was not good, but so much so!..
andr_mih, don't exaggerate. There are also household pyrethroid insecticides that do not smell at all.
Only, I would still be wary of using them indoors, especially with children. They also say that almost all of them are carcinogenic...

04.03.2007 20:56, Necrocephalus

Today, on a bookshelf, I found SOMETHING resembling the nest of an unknown insect. The nest was firmly attached to Jaroslaw Hasek's book. After an autopsy, larvae were found inside. It doesn't look like a hornet's nest. Any idea what this might be?
The owners of the apartment are clean people and have not previously been seen breeding insects.

In my area, the Pelopean (Sceliphron destillatorium) makes exactly the same nests. I also took them

out, it turns out-probably the owners of the apartment are big fans of clean air and did not close the windows to the apartment all summer, which Pelopey took advantage of. Look at how much dirt the poor man had to train to build his home. And all the larvae died, probably from the excessive dryness of the internal climate of the apartment in the cold season...

This post was edited by Necrocephalus - 03/04/2007 20: 57