Big khrushchak crawled in

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Jetsqut, 23.06.2012 9:25

Tonight I found a big Khrushchak on my desktop. I crawled under the lamp and quite quickly, but I managed to catch it and throw it out of the window. I read about them, it turns out that they lay eggs from late June to mid-August. Something scary somehow, suddenly it was a female.
Please tell me what precautions to take? In the kitchen, flour, cereals, bread, and in general all food is hermetically sealed in containers/iron boxes. There's obviously nowhere to lay the larvae. But what to do with the room? The renovation is old, the skirting boards fell off about six months ago, the parquet is all in cracks, especially near the wall. Even a vacuum cleaner does not save you from all the bread crumbs and dust that accumulates there. I'm afraid that if Khrushchak put the larvae aside, I simply won't be able to find them in such a parquet floor, even if I lick the entire apartment. Can you fill the floor with bleach or vinegar? Or do you have any other advice? I don't want to raise an army of five hundred beetles.

P.S. Repairs are planned not earlier than in a year, so please do not advise to change the parquet and put on new wallpaper.

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02.07.2012 22:29, Jetsqut

This is zofobas. Someone nearby breeds exotic animals?

I just killed another one. Now I was crawling in the middle of the corridor, and the cat caught me. Of course, she catches flies normally and beetles, as it turned out, too, but if there are even more of them, the cat will not be able to cope.

Are you sure it's zophobia? I looked at a bunch of photos and those that I have at home, one in one khrushchaks. In Zophobas, the shape of the body is oblong and the antennae are of a different shape and longer.
I don't know about exotic animals. The neighbors don't seem to keep anything like that.
Please tell me what to do? About a couple of months ago, we got rid of house ants, which were especially plentiful in the bathroom and kitchen. Now, as the beetles appeared, the ants began to appear again.
We keep the apartment clean. If crumbs appear, we immediately remove them.