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Bugs in the flax fire

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Kosiak85, 05.12.2018 9:24

Help me determine what kind of filth it is. Private home. The attic floor is insulated with a linen fire. An invasion of these beetles. In summer it is smaller, in winter it is larger (from all the cracks).
If you crush it, it stinks horribly. If you touch them, they jump up and roll over on their backs (as in the last two photos).

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05.12.2018 10:44, AVA

Help me determine what kind of filth it is. Private home. The attic floor is insulated with a linen fire. An invasion of these beetles. In summer it is smaller, in winter it is larger (from all the cracks).
If you crush it, it stinks horribly. If you touch them, they jump up and roll over on their backs (as in the last two photos).

Well, why just "disgusting"?
This is a small flour beetle Tribolium confusum from the family of black-bodied beetles [Tenebrionidae].
It is a frequent pest of stocks, but it does not feed on flax. Just hiding there for the winter.

05.12.2018 11:31, Kosiak85

So what does he eat there (in an unheated attic) for the third year, if there is nothing there but a bonfire?

05.12.2018 11:33, Kosiak85

How to get rid of it? How is it (or its larvae) dangerous for human health?

05.12.2018 13:47, AVA

So what does he eat there (in an unheated attic) for the third year, if there is nothing there but a bonfire?

It is you who assume that "there is nothing". And almost any organic matter is enough for them to live.

05.12.2018 13:52, AVA

How to get rid of it? How is it (or its larvae) dangerous for human health?

For human health, beetles in the attic are not dangerous in any way.
The best way to get rid of it is a thorough cleaning of the room, followed by sealing and fumigation, i.e. gas treatment. These are preparations based on phosphine or bromoethyl. However, in residential areas such procedures are not applied.
The old folk method is freezing the room. Khrushchaks do not tolerate a drop in temperature below -7 degrees and quickly die. So, you can leave the attic windows open for a few days in winter. It might help. beer.gif

05.12.2018 14:13, Kosiak85

The attic is unused, where the temperature drops to -30 in winter!!!!
There's nothing there but clothes and bonfires.
I thought that in 3 years they should have eaten everything and"dumped"

05.12.2018 14:16, Kosiak85

And at the moment they are climbing into the house from ALL the CRACKS!
There are thousands of them.!!!!
They fall from the ceiling, climb through the windows, crawl out from under the baseboard.

05.12.2018 14:18, Kosiak85

Maybe seeds in the fire??? But then how many more years will they eat them?
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05.12.2018 15:33, AVA

And at the moment they are climbing into the house from ALL the CRACKS!
There are thousands of them.!!!!
They fall from the ceiling, climb through the windows, crawl out from under the baseboard.

Sorry. You can only recommend to close up the cracks. Probably, it is in them that they are saved from the winter cold.

05.12.2018 15:40, Kosiak85

Sorry. You can only recommend to close up the cracks. Probably, it is in them that they are saved from the winter cold.

Maybe lime will help?
Scatter bonfires on top?

05.12.2018 15:46, Kosiak85

By the way, I read about small flour crushers and can not understand why for 3 goals I did not find a single larva. They're pretty big, I see!

This post was edited by Kosiak85 - 05.12.2018 15: 47

05.12.2018 16:13, Kosiak85

this is hard not to see and notice

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05.12.2018 16:36, AVA

this is hard not to see and notice

Well, they don't crawl on walls. Only in narrow crevices and similar shelters.

05.12.2018 16:43, Kosiak85

So what do you recommend?
Lime or better boric acid? mol.gif

26.04.2019 23:43, Last 241

So what do you recommend?
Lime or better boric acid? mol.gif

Tell me, how did you deal with pests?

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