Who is it? Help us identify our neighbors!

http://zooex.baikal.ru/pictures/coleopt/ca...aporariorum.jpg

Really just like that?! You do not have a house, but a klondike.

Ah! This is a different matter. These harpaloos really often crawl and fly into the house, for example, into the light. They really are nocturnal. But they can not be attributed to synanthropic creatures. I advise you to put mosquito nets on the windows and close up the cracks between the boards in the floor. Beetles are generally harmless and do not spoil even kitchen supplies. There is no danger for you or your unborn child if they are not eaten. Most of them, it seems to me, get into your house through cracks in the floor and in places of baseboards.

Thank you so much...although a little, but you reassured me, although you can open the balcony again for the night...)))

Hello! Please help me.
We've got beetles. On the first day, we transferred 10-15 pieces, then we consistently see 2-3 copies every evening.
Panel house, region-Kiev, first floor.
They are very similar to large flour crushers, almost one-to-one in the photo. But our people have a slightly longer head. Black, slightly striped, on the ass something like a sand-colored sting (barely noticeable), the wings are very stiff. During the day, you can't see them at all, they appear in the evenings, they sit on the ceiling and wallpaper. They can suddenly fall down. There doesn't seem to be anyone in flour and cereals either. They fly silently.
It would have been all right if one of them hadn't bitten my mom. Not much, but sensitive.
And I have a small child. God forbid what kind of allergy will start.
Almost one in one flour crunch, but it seems like those should not bite? Who can it be and how to deal with them?
Thank you. Help. pliz.

http://www.floranimal.ru/pages/animal/h/3049.jpg

Here's a photo that matches 99 percent.
But why do they bite? Or was my mother just imagining it in her fright?

It looks like Khrushchak,but I won't say what kind."It's probably an ovipositor.We need to find
their place of accumulation and finish off the reptiles with some insecticide.

Thank you. And where to look for their place of accumulation? One of them ran away from me under the baseboard and I never saw him again. The other 5 pieces on the first day of the invasion were sitting on the curtain under the eaves. They appear strictly in the evening. Our mosquito nets are solid... They still live in the house. And what kind of life cycle can they have? And do you think they do bite? My mother denies the fact of hallucinations at all.

The photo you gave is really Khrushchak. But these beetles don't bite - 100% excluded! Perhaps your mother took for a bite just the touch of his feet (the claws on the paws are quite "prehensile"). Khrushchaks often fly to their homes on summer evenings to see the light of electric lamps. And they can develop not in your supplies, but, for example, in the attic, where there may be bird nests (pigeon nests). And by the fact that your beetles are "striped", do you mean that they have longitudinal grooves on their elytra? In fact, khrushchaks are monochrome, there should not be any stripes of different colors.

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 25.07.2008 17: 00

I could only bite like this, but with my jaws, and not,, with a sting,,. If there is a basement under you........ then
that's where you need to look for them.In the house, he ran under the baseboard, so from there and
will come again.

Well, yes, the grooves on the elytra, exactly. Not Colorado one hundred percent)))
Tell me, are there any beetles that look like Khrushchaks that still bite?
This thought haunts me.
My mother))) still stubbornly denies the touch of paws))) He says he was burned. And something a little red on her body ((

I could only bite like this, but with my jaws, and not,, with a sting,,. If there is a basement under you........ then
that's where you need to look for them.In the house, he ran under the baseboard, so from there and
will come again.

What are you, some kind of biting flour krushchak?! Yes, even if you take it in your hands, it will not bite. Do not invent and do not frighten the townsfolk unnecessarily!

So he COULD have bitten me with his jaws?
You see, the question is very burning, because my girl of two years of age is fortunately not afraid of insects, and I would not like some Khrushchak to initiate her childhood insectophobia.

And if I don't get rid of them now, they'll breed in droves?!

Well, yes, the grooves on the elytra, exactly. Not Colorado one hundred percent)))
Tell me, are there any beetles that look like Khrushchaks that still bite?
This thought haunts me.
My mother))) still stubbornly denies the touch of paws))) He says he was burned. And something a little reddened on her body((

Do not be angry, but judging by your story, you have little understanding of the subject, so it is difficult to draw a clear conclusion from your verbal description of who you are talking about. For ordinary people, All beetles look the same and are very similar already in such signs as "oblong", "black", etc. Try to take a photo (at least on a mobile phone)and put it up for viewing. Then you can definitely say who it is that you have a biting wound up. But once again I undertake to say that Khrushchak could not have bitten, especially "how it burned" and to the point of redness.

Dmitrich,you will probably be surprised if I say that b. cows bite..............

OK, will you be here tomorrow around 13-16 pm? I'll put up a photo. Yesterday I tried to play with macro photography, but the photos came out in terrible quality. I'm neither a photographer nor an entomologist. But I'll try again.
I'm just here in the Internet for the third day swarming, many beetles looked. And the picture I put up is of our beetle. Perhaps something is different in the structure of the head in the sense that our head seems to be more merged with the body, the transition is less pronounced. And so-one to one. Honestly))

Dmitrich,you will probably be surprised if I say that b. cows bite..............

I'll just shrug my shoulders in disbelief . Actually, if you hold me in giant fingers, then I can also bite, but seriously, my long-term (more than 40 years) my experience with insects allows me to say that ladybugs are not dangerous to humans and do not bite (especially by themselves).

Dmitrich,you will probably be surprised if I say that b. cows bite..............

Sorry, of course, that I'm wet... But I was once bitten by a cow as a child))) Slightly so. And the redness could be an individual reaction of the body to the penetration of a foreign protein under the skin... Once again, forgive the philistine.

OK, will you be here tomorrow around 13-16 pm? I'll put up a photo. Yesterday I tried to play with macro photography, but the photos came out in terrible quality. I'm neither a photographer nor an entomologist. But I'll try again.
I'm just here in the Internet for the third day swarming, many beetles looked. And the picture I put up is of our beetle. Perhaps something is different in the structure of the head in the sense that our head seems to be more merged with the body, the transition is less pronounced. And so-one to one. Honestly))

It is me who will not be on the forum tomorrow at the time you indicated-urgent matters. But don't worry, there are a lot of excellent specialists here, they will definitely help you! Upload photos.

Guys, one more question, if you'll excuse me. If we still assume that we have Khrushchak, can he fall from the ceiling at night on a sleeping child?

It is me who will not be on the forum tomorrow at the time you indicated-urgent matters. But don't worry, there are a lot of excellent specialists here, they will definitely help you! Upload photos.

ОК.

Sorry, of course, that I'm wet... But I was once bitten by a cow as a child))) Slightly so. And the redness could be an individual reaction of the body to the penetration of a foreign protein under the skin... Once again, forgive the philistine.

I'm sorry again, but are you absolutely sure that you can tell a bee from a wasp, a bee-like or wasp-like fly from the models they "imitate"?
Who do you think is in these pictures?
  
  
  
I don't believe in a ladybug bite (if it was a ladybug!). All my experience protests against this. In general, there are quite a few insects that can bite, this is a fact.

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Guys, one more question, if you'll excuse me. If we still assume that we have Khrushchak, can he fall from the ceiling at night on a sleeping child?

But this is easy! And, of course, this is not very pleasant. Not fatal, but a beetle is a beetle: you can't rule out its crawling into the ear, etc., for example.

No, well, the pictures are clearly not ladybirds)))))
And the ladybug - it is red, with black dots)))))
Sorry again. I myself do not like to communicate with those who try to be clever about MY professional topics...

But this is easy! And, of course, this is not very pleasant. Not fatal, but a beetle is a beetle: you can't rule out its crawling into the ear, etc., for example.

((((Blah. Well, it's too big for the ear. What should I do? Call the specialists today?

And the pictures are very beautiful... And clearly not the bees or wasps I'm used to.

No, well, the pictures are clearly not ladybirds)))))
And the ladybug - it is red, with black dots)))))
Sorry again. I myself do not like to communicate with those who try to be clever about MY professional topics...

No, I'm not saying that it's unpleasant to communicate with you! Quite the opposite: I sincerely want to help you. In the photo, of course, not ladybirds. Who do you think it is? I posted the photo not for comparison with the cows, but in order to understand from this test how well you can determine which of the insects in front of you.

I don't want to argue,it's better to return to the topic of how to get rid of beetles.

And the pictures are very beautiful... And clearly not the bees or wasps I'm used to.

That's right, it's getting warmer! And who, who? And another thing: if you saw these insects (in the photo below) not in an enlarged and motionless form, but in motion, in flight, on flowers (etc.), who would you take them for?

OK, the first one - I don't know.
The second one may be a wasp, but it's clearly not her.
The third - it looks like a bumblebee, but clearly not him)))

(Dmitrich)What you have posted is the same as proving to people that the glassworm is a butterfly.

This post was edited by DIMID - 25.07.2008 17: 54

That's right, it's getting warmer! And who, who? And another thing: if you saw these insects (in the photo below) not in an enlarged and motionless form, but in motion, in flight, on flowers (etc.), who would you take them for?

All would take for bees)))))))))
But! I've been dealing with our bug for a week now. And not in motion, but looking closely at it and comparing it with pictures from the Internet. But I understand your doubts))) Thank you so much for participating))

I don't want to argue,it's better to return to the topic of how to get rid of beetles.

Come on! And how to get rid of them TODAY? Maybe what kind of fumilgator will be effective, insecticide? Or is it very harmful for children and the risks outweigh the benefits?

I don't want to argue,it's better to return to the topic of how to get rid of beetles.

I think that with a probability of 80%, beetles (if they are really flour crustaceans) do not develop in the apartment, but get into it from the outside (they fly into the light, crawl through the cracks in the window frames, from under the floor (the first floor), etc. In some year, Khrushchaks also flew into my apartment from the street through the balcony in quite large numbers (there was a mass reproduction of them). So, first of all, it is necessary to eliminate the possibility of their "arrival" (the methods are clear-grids on windows, elimination of cracks, etc.). In addition, you need to check flour, cereal products, crackers, dried fruits again, if their stocks are in the house (maybe slightly forgotten somewhere lie in a bag ). Larvae of flour crustaceans can develop there. Throw out the food base - and there will be no beetles. Finally, talk to your neighbors: perhaps the "infection" is coming from them, there is a "Khrushchakov brood".

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 25.07.2008 18: 03

All would take for bees)))))))))
But! I've been dealing with our bug for a week now. And not in motion, but looking closely at it and comparing it with pictures from the Internet. But I understand your doubts))) Thank you so much for participating))

So: in the first photo - a beetle, in the other two - flies. And all are absolutely harmless to humans.

Thanks!
I understand everything. Tomorrow I will report on the results and post a photo.
Thank you again!

The best thing would be if you had a place to start.Rooms, it is necessary to treat well with funds, and leave for 2-3 days.Regarding its toxicity, it is harmful to all
living organisms, including humans, of course.

(Dmitrich)What you have posted is the same as proving to people that the glassworm is a butterfly.

Not at all. I just wanted to clearly prove that there can be a gap between" very similar "and" exactly it " (especially not in appearance, but in fact).

I'm leaving,I'll be there after 22.00