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Biscuit Beetle
The female Biscuit Beetle lays her oval eggs in and about food materials and they hatch in a few days. The full-grown larvae pupate in a silken cocoon with bits of foodstuff incorporated into it. Pupation lasts twelve to eighteen days. The complete life cycle from egg to adult usually takes about seven months, but there could be one to four generations of Biscuit Beetle per year depending on the temperature.
The Biscuit Beetle attacks a host of items that include any household food and spice, as well as such things as drugs, hair, horns, leather, and museum species. Most commonly attacked are bread, flour, meal, breakfast foods, and condiments such as red pepper. It is also a pest of books and manuscripts. Adult Biscuit Beetles can fly and are attracted to light.
Carpet Beetle
Female Carpet Beetles do not always lay their eggs on larval food material. The eggs hatch in seventeen or eighteen days. Development time from egg to adult usually requires two hundred and forty-nine to three hundred and fifty-four days at room temperature but may take as long as two to three years depending upon temperature and food. Adult Carpet Beetle males live for thirteen to twenty-eight days, whereas female Carpet Beetles live for fourteen to one hundred and forty-four days.
Carpet Beetle larvae feed on a wide variety of animal and plant products. Animal origin materials include woolens, carpets, furs, hides, feathers, horns, bones, hair, silk, fishmeal, insect pupae, and dead insects. Plant-origin materials include meal, corn, cacao, and cereals. The favored food of Carpet Beetles is insects and spiders, which makes them a major pest of museum collections. On fabrics, the larvae mostly surface graze but are quite capable of making small or large irregular holes.
Contamination of goods and products, considerable damage to goods and products, and loss of goodwill are reasons to control Carpet Beetles.
Confused Flour Beetle:
The Confused Flour Beetle female deposits some three to five hundred clear white sticky eggs on, or among food materials in cracks and crevices, in bags, or through the mesh of sacks containing food. The female Beetle lays two to three eggs per day and lives for two to three years. The life cycle can be completed in only seven weeks but may require three months or longer. In heated storage facilities and processing plants there can be four or five generations of Flour Beetles yearly.
Flour Beetles are unable to feed on whole kernels or undamaged grain. They have been recorded attacking grains and grain products such as peas, beans, shelled nuts, dried fruits, spices, milk chocolate, drugs, snuff, cayenne pepper, insects, and other museum species. Flour Beetles are attracted to light but do not fly. Although humans are not injured by it, Confused Flour Beetles do impact a disagreeable odor and taste to the flour they infest.
Death Watch Beetle
Death Watch Beetles are wood-boring insects that create a tapping or ticking sound, that can be heard in the rafters of old buildings, or the roof of a Church on a quiet summer night. Needless to say, the damage that they can do is significant.
A Professional Pest Control Company Registered Member will often need to provide specialist equipment such as scaffolding, to reach and be able to successfully treat Death Watch Beetle infestations high up in the rafters.
Flour Weevil
More often than not the first indication of a Flour Weevil infestation is when you spot the presence of small Brown Beetles, Moths, or Maggots in cupboards, or on the worktops. Closer inspection of the pantry reveals insects in opened Flour and Cereal boxes, containers of food that you thought were sealed, and cracks and crevices of the cupboards.
Flour Beetles are commonly referred to as Flour Weevils and vice versa. Either way, the infestation means that you will need to thoroughly clean the pantry shelving, get rid of infested packets, and cereal boxes, and then wash down to eradicate the problem.
Unopened packets and boxes may also become infested because some of these insects will readily chew into cardboard and foil packaging. Insects can be brought into the home with already infested food products from the supermarket store, or the corner shop. They can easily multiply and spread to other stored products, so a good clean is called for as a minimum.
Once an infestation is suspected, try to identify the pest and also try to locate the source which can sometimes be difficult to find.
You might also be surprised to know that some products are likely to be infested before they even leave the supermarket or local store.
In any case, if you are struggling to eradicate the infestation a Professional Pest Control Company Registered Member is available to carry out remedial treatments.
Fungus Beetle
The Fungus Beetle is not considered to be a major pest problem and can sometimes be found on Plaster, in Mills, or around Damp Warehouses where the Fungus Beetle will infest stored foodstuffs, therefore making food contamination a factor. They are capable of transporting Mould from one commodity to another.
Control measures for the Fungus Beetle can be discussed with a Professional Pest Control Company Registered Member with ongoing inspections and treatment as required.
Furniture Beetles - Woodworm
Furniture Beetles are also known as the Common Furniture Beetle or Common House Borer, but whatever you call them they are wood-boring beetles and will cause significant damage if left untreated.
Treatment for Woodworms requires specialist knowledge so as not to cause more damage to the infected item potentially. The infestation may not show obvious Bore holes until years after the timber has been acquired, regardless of whether it is Furniture or attic timbers.
However, Furniture Beetles can be controlled by the application of a residual insecticide such as Permethrin to the infected area by a Professional Pest Control Company Registered Member using Fumigation, or by replacing the infected timber.
Also worth mentioning is the fact that Aerosol Insecticide Sprays will kill the adult Borer as it is flying, but it will not kill the burrowing larvae which remain relatively protected inside infected timber.
Fur Beetles
The Fur Beetle can be found in a wide variety of products including Furs, Skins, Textiles, and Grain. Whilst Adult Fur Beetles live outdoors feeding on pollen and nectar, they will also be found wandering up your walls, or in the window sills, where until now perhaps you haven't given them a second glance. Significant damage to your clothing or display items will quickly have you investigating every Beetle thereafter.
Fur Beetles will thrive in situations where they remain undisturbed such as under carpets, around the edge of the skirting boards in cupboards and wardrobes. Bird and Rodent nests, or an animal’s carcass, or dead insects in the attic are typically places of substantial infestation.
Professional Pest Control Company Registered Members will be able to offer treatments to resolve and control the possibility of ongoing infestations. It's worth remembering that prevention in the first place will save your expensive woolens and stock items that you may not be able to replace so easily.
Ground Beetle
Ground Beetles are members of the Carabidae family, which contains something like 350 species in the UK. They are voracious predators and as the name suggests spend their time on the ground. The fusion of their wing cases acts as a sort of protective armor and rarely do they fly.
Ground Beetle Larvae and adults are carnivorous, eat snails and slugs but depending on the species will also attack Aphids and other pest insects so encourage them in the garden if you can and you end up with an environmentally acceptable Pest Control Officer that will cost you nothing, now there's a thought!
Ground Beetles are generally nocturnal but require some form of shade during the day. Log piles, leaf litter, paving slabs, or a pile of stones collected throughout the seasons will be ideal cover for them. You will find Ground Beetles throughout the year, although they will hibernate during the coldest winter months.
Larder Beetle
Adult female Larder Beetles lay their eggs on suitable food for the larva, or in cracks and crevices where such food is stored. The number of eggs ranges from one hundred to eight hundred. Development time from egg to adult may only require forty or fifty days but usually takes two to three months or longer. There is usually only one generation per year, but in some locations, there may be as many as six. Adult Larder Beetles survive the winter in bark crevices enter the buildings in the spring and summer and live for about three to five months.
The adult Larder Beetle and larvae feed on all kinds of animal products such as dried fish, ham, bacon, meats, cheese, dried pet food, and dried museum species including insects, hides, feathers, horns, and hair. Most damage is done by larval feeding, but adults also feed and cause damage.
Prevention of damage to goods and products, loss of goodwill, and prevention of diseases are the reasons for the control of Larder Beetles. Our Pest Control Company Registered Members on the pest control price comparison site are ready to help.
Mealworm Beetle
The adult female Mealworm Beetle lays eggs singly, or in clusters in food material over a period of twenty-two to one hundred and thirty-seven days, with an average of two hundred and seventy-six eggs being laid per female. Development time from egg to adult usually requires two hundred and eighty, to six hundred and thirty days. There is usually one generation per year, but some individuals may require up to two years for complete development. Adult Mealworm Beetles usually live two to three months. The species is of medical concern because if the eggs and/or larvae are ingested with cereals or breakfast foods, they can cause stomach discomfort.
Yellow Mealworms are usually found breeding in grain refuse and debris, and typically indicate a lack of proper hygiene. They prefer dark damp situations. They have been found in neglected corners with accumulated grain, under bags of grain in warehouses and feed stores, in spillage around grain bins, and in litter of poultry houses where grain is mixed with droppings.
Plaster Beetle
Different species of Plaster Beetles are shaped and colored differently, thus making identification by the layman difficult that said Plaster Beetles are generally brown and can fly. They will often be found on the window sills, and in lighting fixtures in your home.
The Plaster Beetle got its name from a period when walls in homes and buildings were constructed of mesh and wet plaster. Excessive moisture behind wallpaper for example (before walls have had time to dry out properly) promotes mold growth, which ultimately serves as a food source for them.
It's true to say that Plaster Beetles feed on Fungus but they will thrive in any situation where there is dampness, say water leaks, poor ventilation, and/or any other source of moisture that permits the development of mold on, or inside walls, voids, and cavities.
Contact a Professional Registered Member of Home Pest Solutions to deal with what could be a large infestation of Plaster Beetles.
Saw Toothed Grain Beetle
The female Saw Toothed Grain Beetle can lay forty-five to two hundred and eighty-five white shiny eggs either singly, or in small clusters in crevices on the food material over a two to five-month period. The life cycle from egg to adult typically requires thirty to fifty days. The optimal development conditions are 30/35c and seventy percent plus humidity. There may be as many as six or seven generations per year, but the number is greatly dependent on temperature. On average the adult Saw Toothed Grain Beetle will live for six to ten months but has been known to live longer than three years.
The Saw Toothed Grain Beetle does considerable damage to grains, but it cannot attack sound kernels. Its flat body allows access through very small cracks and into imperfectly sealed packages. Adult Saw Toothed Grain Beetles are not known to fly and are not attracted to light. It attacks a wide variety of foodstuffs which include cereals, bread, breakfast foods, dried fruits, nuts, sugar, chocolate, dried meats, drugs, tobacco, and many other items.
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