The millions of species of insects that live on earth today play a vital role in the ecosystem of our planet. Although most of them are safe, some can cause a lot of trouble for a person, and some can be poisonous and even deadly. From familiar ants and flies to more exotic beetles, here's a list of the 25 most dangerous insects in the world.

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1. Termites

Termites do not pose a direct danger to humans, they play an important role for environment Moreover, in some cultures they are even eaten. But at the same time, baby termites can cause enormous damage to infrastructure, sometimes making houses completely uninhabitable.

3. Black-legged tick

Every year, the black-legged tick infects thousands of people with Lyme disease, which starts with a rash around the bite that looks like a bull's eye. Early symptoms of this disease include headache and fever. With the further development of the disease, the victim begins to suffer from problems with the cardiovascular system. Few die from these bites, but the effects can continue for years after the unpleasant encounter with the tick.

4. Army ants

The first creature on our list that is dangerous in the literal sense of the word are roaming ants, known for their predatory aggression. Unlike other ant species, roamers do not build their own permanent nests. Instead, they create colonies that migrate from one place to another. These predators constantly move during the day, preying on insects and small vertebrates. In fact, the entire combined colony can kill more than half a million insects and small animals in one day.

Most wasps pose no particular direct danger, but certain varieties, such as the German wasp North America, reach large sizes and can be incredibly aggressive. If they sense danger or notice an intrusion into their territory, they can sting repeatedly and very painfully. They will mark their aggressors and in some cases pursue them.

6. Black Widow

Although the sting of a female black widow spider can be very dangerous to humans due to the neurotoxins released during the bite, if the necessary medical care, then the consequences of the bite will be limited to only some pain. Unfortunately, isolated cases of death from the bite of a black widow still occurred.

7. Hairy Caterpillar

Caterpillars of the Megalopyge opercularis coquette moth look cute and fluffy, but don't be fooled by their cartoony appearance: they are extremely venomous.

Usually people believe that the hairs themselves are burning, but in reality the poison is released through the spikes hidden in this "wool". The spines are extremely brittle and remain in the skin after being touched. The poison causes a burning sensation around the affected area, headache, dizziness, vomiting, sharp pains in the abdomen, damage to the lymph nodes, and sometimes respiratory arrest.

8. Cockroaches

The cockroach is known as a carrier of many diseases that are dangerous to humans. The main danger of living together with cockroaches is that they climb into toilet bowls, garbage cans and other places where bacteria accumulate, and as a result, they are their carriers. Cockroaches can cause a variety of diseases, from worms and dysentery to tuberculosis and typhoid. Cockroaches can carry fungi, single-celled organisms, bacteria, and viruses. And here's a fun fact - they can live for months without food or water.

10. Bed bugs

A person does not directly feel the bite itself, since the composition of the saliva of the bug includes an anesthetic substance. If the bug could not get close to the blood capillary the first time, it can bite a person several times. At the site of a bug bite, severe itching begins, and a blister may also appear. Occasionally, people experience a severe allergic reaction to a bug bite. Fortunately, 70 percent of people feel almost no effects from them.

Bedbugs are household insects and do not belong to the group of carriers of infectious diseases, however, in their body they can retain pathogens that transmit infections through the blood, such as viral hepatitis B, for a long time, pathogens of plague, tularemia, and Q fever can also persist. They cause the greatest harm to people with their bites, depriving a person of normal rest and sleep, which can subsequently adversely affect moral health and performance.

11. Human gadfly

12. Centipede

The centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) is an insect that is also called the flycatcher and is thought to have originated in the Mediterranean. Although other sources speak of Mexico. The centipede has become very common throughout the world. Although the appearance of such insects is unattractive, they generally perform useful work, as they eat other insect pests and even spiders. True, with entomophobia (fear of insects), such an argument will not help. Usually people kill them because of their unpleasant appearance, although centipedes are even protected in some southern countries.

The flycatcher is a predator, they inject the victim with poison and then kill it. Often flycatchers settle in apartments without harming food or furniture. They love moisture, often centipedes can be found in basements, under baths, in toilets. Flycatchers live from 3 to 7 years, newborns have only 4 pairs of legs, increasing them by one with each new molt.

Typically, the bite of such an insect is not disturbing to humans, although it can be compared with a small bee sting. For some, it can even be painful, but usually it is limited to tears. Of course, centipedes are not insects that are responsible for thousands of deaths, but many of us would be surprised to learn that someone dies from these stings every year. The fact is that an allergic reaction to insect venom is possible, but this still happens extremely rarely.

13. Black Scorpion

Although scorpions do not belong to insects, as they belong to the order of arthropods from the class of arachnids, we nevertheless included them in this list, especially since black scorpions are the most dangerous species of scorpions. Most of them live in South Africa, especially often they can be found in desert areas. Black scorpions are distinguished from other species by their thick tails and thin legs. Black scorpions sting, injecting their prey with poison that can cause pain, paralysis and even death.

14. Predator

15. Bullet Ant

Paraponera clavata is a species of large tropical ants from the genus Paraponera Smith and the subfamily Paraponerinae (Formicidae), which have a strong sting. This ant is called a bullet for the reason that the bite victims compare it to a shot from a pistol.

A person bitten by such an ant may feel throbbing and relentless pain for days after the bite. In some local Indian tribes (Satere-Mawe, Maue, Brazil), these ants are used in very painful rites of initiation of boys to adulthood (which leads to temporary paralysis and even blackening of the stung fingers). During the study chemical composition poison, a paralyzing neurotoxin (peptide) called poneratoxin was isolated from it.

16 Brazilian Wandering Spider

Also known as Phoneutria, Brazilian wandering spiders are venomous creatures that live in tropical South America and Central America. In the 2010 Guinness Book of Records, this type of spider was named the most venomous spider in the world.

The venom of this genus contains a powerful neurotoxin known as PhTx3. At lethal concentrations, this neurotoxin causes loss of muscle control and breathing problems, leading to paralysis and eventually suffocation. A bite of moderate pain, poison causes instant infection of the lymphatic system, entering the bloodstream in 85% of cases leads to heart failure. Patients feel wild stiffness during life, men sometimes experience priapism. There is an antidote that is on par with antibiotics, but because of the severity of the harm to the body of the poison, the detox procedure is actually equal to the chance of survival of the victim.

17. Malarial mosquito

18. Rat fleas

19. African honey bee

African bees (also known as killer bees) are the descendants of bees brought from Africa to Brazil in the 1950s in an attempt to improve honey production in that country. Some African queens have begun to interbreed with native European bees. The resulting hybrids moved north and are still found in Southern California.

African bees look the same and in most cases behave like European bees, which in this moment reside in the United States. They can only be detected by DNA analysis. Their stings also do not differ from the sting of an ordinary bee. One very important difference between the two varieties is the defensive behavior of the African bees when defending their nest. In some attacks in South America, African bees have killed livestock and people. This behavior has earned the AMPs the nickname "killer bees".

In addition, this type of bee is known for acting like an invader. Their swarms attack the hives of the common honey bee, invading them and installing their queen. They attack in large colonies and are ready to destroy anyone who encroaches on their uterus.

Although the flea is not usually perceived as dangerous, fleas transmit numerous diseases between animals and humans. Throughout history, they have contributed to the spread of many diseases, such as the bubonic plague.

21. Fire Ants

Fire ants are several related ants from the Solenopsis saevissima species-group of the Solenopsis genus, which have a strong sting and poison, whose effect is similar to a flame burn (hence their name). More often under this name appears the invasive red fire ant, which has spread throughout the world. There are known cases of human sting by one ant with serious consequences, anaphylactic shock, up to death.

22. Brown recluse

The second spider on our list, the brown recluse, doesn't release neurotoxins like the black widow. Its bite destroys tissue and can cause lesions that take months to heal.

The bite very often goes unnoticed, but in most cases the sensations are similar to those of a needle prick. Then within 2-8 hours the pain makes itself felt. Further, the situation develops depending on the amount of poison that has entered the bloodstream. The venom of the brown recluse spider is hemolytic, which means it causes necrosis and tissue destruction. A bite for young children, the elderly and sick people can be fatal.

23. Siafu Ants

Siafu (Dorylus) - These army ants are mainly found in East and Central Africa, but have also been found already in tropical Asia. Insects live in colonies that can number up to 20 million individuals, all of which are blind. They make their travels with the help of pheromones. The colony has no permanent place residence, moving from place to place. In the course of movement to feed the larvae, insects attack all invertebrates.

Among these ants there is a special group - soldiers. It is they who can sting, for which they use their hook-shaped jaws, and the size of such individuals reaches 13 mm. The jaws of the soldiers are so strong that in some places in Africa they are even used to secure the seams. The wound may be closed for as long as 4 days. Usually, after a Siafu bite, the consequences are minimal, you don’t even need to call a doctor. True, it is believed that young and old people are especially sensitive to the bites of such ants, and deaths from complications after contact have been observed. As a result, annually, according to statistics, from 20 to 50 people die from these insects. This is facilitated by their aggressiveness, especially when protecting their colony, which a person can accidentally attack.

24. Giant Asian Shemale

Many of us have seen bumblebees - they seem to be quite small, and there is little reason to be afraid of them. Now imagine a bumblebee that has grown up as if on steroids, or just look at the Asian giant. These hornets are the largest in the world - their length can reach 5 cm, and their wingspan is 7.5 centimeters. The length of the sting in such insects can be up to 6 mm, but neither a bee nor a wasp can compare with such a bite, and bumblebees can also sting repeatedly. Such dangerous insects cannot be found in Europe or the USA, but when traveling through East Asia and the mountains of Japan, you can meet them. To understand the consequences of a bite, it is enough to listen to eyewitnesses. They compare the sensation of a bumblebee's sting to a red-hot nail driven into the foot.

The venom of the sting has 8 different compounds, which cause discomfort, damaging soft tissues and creating a scent that can attract new bumblebees to prey. People who are allergic to bees can die from the reaction, but there are cases of death due to the poison mandorotoxin, which can be dangerous if it gets deep enough into the body. It is believed that about 70 people die from such bites every year. Curiously, the sting is not the main hunting tool of bumblebees - they crush their enemies with large jaws.

25. Tsetse fly

The tsetse fly lives in tropical and subtropical Africa, having chosen the Kalahari and Sahara deserts. Flies are carriers of trypanosomiasis, which cause sleeping sickness in animals and humans. Tsetse are anatomically very similar to their ordinary relatives - they can be distinguished by a proboscis on the front of the head and a special manner of folding wings. It is the proboscis that allows you to get the main food - the blood of wild African mammals. On this mainland, there are 21 species of such flies, which can reach a length of 9 to 14 mm.

You should not consider flies so harmless to humans, because they really kill people, doing it quite often. It is believed that in Africa up to 500 thousand people are infected with sleeping sickness, carried by this particular insect. The disease disrupts the activity of the endocrine and cardiac systems. Then amazed nervous system causing mental confusion and sleep disturbance. Attacks of fatigue are replaced by hyperactivity.

The last major epidemic was recorded in Uganda in 2008, in general, the disease is on the list of forgotten in WHO. However, in Uganda alone, 200,000 people have died from sleeping sickness in the last 6 years. It is believed that this disease is largely to blame for the deterioration of the economic situation in Africa. It is curious that flies attack any warm object, even a car, but they do not attack a zebra, considering it only a flash of stripes. Tsetse flies have also saved Africa from soil erosion and overgrazing caused by cattle.

Man came up with different methods control of these insects. In the 1930s, all wild pigs were destroyed on the west coast, but this gave a result only for 20 years. Now they fight by shooting wild animals, cutting down bushes and treating male flies with radiation in order to deprive them of the opportunity to reproduce.

The neighborhood with insects in an apartment or a private house is familiar to many. You can get used to some, others live their lives, but a significant part of them cause serious trouble. Cockroaches or ants can be found in a plate of food, in personal care products, and even in underpants.

Basically, domestic insects are divided into 3 groups:

household pests. Insects of this group, although they do not feed human blood, but still cause a lot of trouble. They eat leftover food household waste, your books and more. They can be found in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in the closet with clothes, in the bin and in any part of the apartment or house. This category includes cockroaches, moths, ants, skin beetles and others.

Harmless neighbors. This group includes harmless inhabitants of the corners and nooks and crannies of your house. They do not harm, and sometimes even slightly eliminate harmful insects. Harmless neighbors include spiders, centipedes, flycatchers and silverfish. In view of their safety, there is no need to talk about them further.

Lice

• head;
• pubic;
• clothes.

They are very similar to each other and it is very difficult for a non-specialist to distinguish them. Therefore, the division was based on the place where they live and feed. Head lice live in the hairline on the head, pubic lice on the pubis, armpits, eyebrows and eyelashes. Clothes, on the other hand, mainly live in the fabrics of clothing, its seams, periodically moving to the human body in order to feed on blood.

The bites of these insects cause itching and micro-wounds. The disease caused by lice and their nits is called pediculosis. For its treatment, there are many remedies in pharmacies, mainly in the form of shampoos. It should be noted that during examination, it is not the insects themselves that are mainly noticeable, but their eggs in hard shells (nits).

The fight against lice occurs in two stages. The first stage is as follows (options for each type of insect are given):

• treatment with insecticidal shampoo of the head - from head lice;
• removal of hair from the pubis and armpits, manual removal of nits from eyebrows and eyelashes - from pubic lice;
• processing of wearable clothes - from body lice.

At the second stage, the entire apartment with residential and non-residential premises is subject to processing. All clothing should also be amenable to the insecticide cleaning procedure.

These insects are somewhat similar to the previous ones in terms of lifestyle and nutrition. Only for fleas, the carrier is not a person, but pets. They settle in their coat and increase their numbers.

Fleas are brown or black insects with a small flattened body covered with villi (thanks to them, it is securely attached to the hairline). They may vary depending on the carrier. So, rat, cat, dog and other fleas are isolated.

They painfully bite pets and people (on which, although they do not live, they can jump and bite), while spreading pathogens such as:

• hepatitis A;
• encephalitis;
• pulicosis;
• sarcopsillosis and others.

Despite all their threat, the fight against fleas is not a problem. You just need to treat your pets if you notice insects. Signs of infection are usually profuse scratching of the pet itself.

bedbugs

Bedbugs can live in fairly sterile conditions. The apartment may be clean and tidy, but brought bed bug from the street it will settle down and multiply in your home.

Outwardly, it is a brown insect with a horizontally flattened body. The bug itself is not noticeable for two reasons: it is very small and hides from the light. But you can determine its presence by excrement and blood spots on the bed, and, of course, by bites at night.

In extreme cases, you can contact a special service. And after processing them, observe certain rules cleaning to avoid re-invasion. One such precaution can be cleaning with vinegar. Bedbugs will not disappear from him, but from reappearance it can save.

mosquitoes

Getting rid of these insects is not so difficult. To avoid them at home, use mosquito nets on windows and doors. Pills and liquid for the Raptor also help a lot. For protection outside the home, special products in the form of sprays and creams are well suited, which can be bought at a pharmacy or a store with cosmetics and home goods. You can also try to eliminate dampness and make the air drier.

household pests

cockroaches

A few words have already been said about these tenants of the apartment. If suddenly you have them wound up, then remember that it will be difficult to get rid of them. There are two main species that live in human habitation:

• prussians - they are usually red or brown;
• black cockroaches.

The latter are less common and cause little harm. Brown Prussians, on the other hand, can increase their population within a very short period. They usually start up in places where there is garbage, a lot food waste and access to water. Actually, due to their dependence on water, they often choose a place where dampness is often or always.

Prussians are also easy to bring home with you. They easily hide in clothes and objects, for example, they can get into your purse and get into your apartment with it.

To remove cockroaches, you need to find out in stores for the home special remedy, which will help to destroy pests. It is best to take pistols that allow you to make short paths that block access to water and food. If without the latter the Prussian can live a long time, then without water they will die. You can get rid of cockroaches with boric acid, which is easy to find in a pharmacy.

mole

It is dangerous because it actively multiplies and can affect not only fur products and natural fabrics, but also food. In fact, this is not done by the same moth, but by its different species.

The difference is not fundamental, but as for the grocery (aka clothes) moth, the adult moth itself is no longer as dangerous as its larvae. If you notice affected products or adults, immediately destroy all cereals, vegetables and fruits. The fact is that products infected with moth larvae become dangerous to humans.

Means of struggle:

• butterfly repellent (naphthalene or natural remedies in the form of lavender and geranium);
• chemical treatment using dichlorvos.

It is necessary to process the entire room, and not just the places where the moth was found. It is not easy to kill insects, because they can hide in the most inaccessible places. Therefore, careful processing is very important.

Ants

They form an anthill throughout the house, or rather the house in a sense becomes their anthill. Different parts of this structure are located in different places, so destroying one place of accumulation, you will not get rid of them completely. They just become smaller for a while.

You will have to get rid of everyone at once, and for this you need to carry out a comprehensive pest control. Although it will be easier to do this than to fight brown Prussians or bedbugs.

The easiest way to fight is to use honey balls made on the basis of boric acid. Also, various aerosols are suitable as a means of destruction. And these brown pests are afraid of garlic, they can rub their paths and gathering places.

beetles

Among pest beetles at home, the kozheed beetle is very common. In general, there is a huge variety of them. But the most common is the small one. brown bug up to 3.5 mm in size.

They feed mainly on organic remains and in human dwellings these are clothes, books, fabrics and paper. The larvae can also infect food. But the pest is dangerous to others, the brown bug can carry helminths, which then infect a person.

The means of control are aerosol insecticides or lavender and wormwood. These herbs repel beetles, and they can leave the home.

whiteflies

These are small butterflies up to 3 mm that infect house plants and feed on their juices. By themselves, they are harmless, but many plants can suffer when they appear.

Whiteflies will easily fly from one to another. To prevent this from happening, you need to get rid of them, but it is better to carefully examine the leaves when buying new flowers. If you see white butterflies, refuse to buy. You can treat the affected plant with Karbofos and Aktar.

The bugs in the apartment are different: small, large, various shades. The appearance of insects, lifestyle and eating habits are also different. Some feed on the blood of warm-blooded creatures, others leave characteristic bites. However, all insects in the apartment are attracted special conditions existence. For this reason, for effective fight need to study pests.

To prepare for destruction, one should consider representatives of the main species often found in human habitation. If you understand what domestic insects are, why they start up, what they eat, it will be easier to deal with them. Living conditions attract moths, ants, flies, silverfish, wood lice and grinders.

More about moth

In a human dwelling, you can find different representatives of this species:

• fur moth
• Clothes
• Food.

Destroys wardrobe items made of natural and semi-synthetic material clothes pest. The preferred food of the fur coat moth is natural fur and wool.

Food brethren grind down cereals and other groceries. An adult may not eat at all, but the young generation, after emerging from a cocoon, is the greatest danger. This means that it is the larvae that destroy stocks, spoil clothes, and flying insects do not pose a danger, they only lay eggs.

Officially represent a group of crustaceans, but are often referred to as insects. Woodlice can live on the first floors of apartment buildings, next to a source of dampness and moisture (basement). In terms of lifestyle, these pests are more like cockroaches. Representatives of the rough woodlice variety are found in apartments much more often.

As you might guess from the name, pests need the main source of life - water. This means that it is easier to deal with them, you just need to block access to moisture. These creatures pose a danger to stocks of vegetables, plant shoots.

It strikes wood materials while remaining unnoticed. It should be clarified that the insect larvae cause harm, and not the beetle itself. Almost the entire tree is damaged. The insect gnaws through it, forming long passages. However, pests do not get to the surface, thereby creating the illusion of the integrity of a piece of furniture or wooden structure. At one of the stages of development, the larvae pupate, which usually occurs in areas immediately under the bark. Then the bugs appear.

These insects in the home are more common where you can access the sewer. So they inhabit the bathrooms and toilets. The development of larvae occurs in sewers, garbage. Flies are small in size, and the wings are much larger than the body. This is the main criterion by which house flies from butterflies.

Ants

Representatives of two varieties can live on the territory of a human house / apartment: (aka brownie), ant-thief. Fighting them is usually ineffective, since insects build nests in different areas, which are sometimes located outside the apartment. Ants harm food and are a source of disease-causing microbes. To destroy these insects in the apartment, it is necessary to act together with the neighbors.

They can appear in places with a high level of humidity, where, moreover, it is quite dark. Insects do not pose a serious danger, although they eat groceries. Representatives of the sugar species of silverfish love sugar. However, the diet is based on organic scales, which pests find in dust deposits in crevices, on the floor, and baseboards. They come out of their hiding places at night.

Types of small beetles and their features

In the kitchen, pests of very small sizes of brown or black color can often appear. Among them, kozheedy, flour beetles are more common. Some common beetles in a residential apartment are skin beetles, for example, a bread grinder. All these insects have an individual set of food habits.

It is characterized by small size (average 1.75-3 mm), color - brown. These little bugs can eat a variety of foods, but prefer flour products. In the absence of other food, dried fruits, dried herbs, books, grains are affected. The larvae cause irreparable harm, since the products where they have been cannot be eaten. Adults do not feed, but make moves in bread products and other food.

There are different types of domestic insects. Among them is another small pest - flour beetle. The size is slightly larger - reaches 5 mm. This is a pest that lives in the kitchen and appears in cereals and flour, bran. Color - brown with a red tint. Sometimes Khrushchaks are called red bugs.

Introduced different types, each of which harms certain objects and products. It can be a fur coat, carpet kozheed, bread grinder. If things made from natural materials suffer in the house: fur, leather, it is likely that a fur coat pest has wound up. Representatives of the carpet species live, respectively, in the carpet. The bread grinder destroys food.

Clothes pests settle on clothes, but feed on human blood. It is noteworthy that representatives of each of the varieties can only be found on the corresponding parts of the body.

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Pests that destroy house plants

Thrips, whiteflies, springtails, mealybugs are common among them. Insects differ in appearance, eating habits.

Characterized by small size (up to 1.5 mm), live with inside sheet. Egg laying is difficult to detect, since the offspring are laid in plant tissues. This makes it difficult to control insects. Thrips of all plants prefers dracaena, ficus, monstera and citrus fruits.

The size of the pest is small (1-3 mm). Characteristic difference - wings white color. There are many varieties of whiteflies (about 200). However, more than others, white insects in the apartment, belonging to the following species, have become widespread: citrus, tobacco, greenhouse. Favorite food: geranium, fuchsia, gloxinia, feces, ferns.

People sometimes do not even suspect how many insects share living space with them. Our inconspicuous guests number about 20 varieties. Many of them need the presence of a person, and sometimes they share with him not only shelter. These invisible neighbors eat our food, ruin our clothes, sleep on our beds, feed on blood and skin.

Even in a clean apartment there are uninvited six-legged and eight-legged guests, and what can we say about microscopic neighbors that can be on the skin of people and animals. They usually enter the house through windows, window sills, any cracks, downpipes, ventilation holes. No human habitation could do without their presence.

In the kitchen, most often you can find:

• Cockroaches;
• Weevils;
• Ants;
• Senoyedov;
• fruit flies;
• Flour crackers.

Cockroaches are the fastest and hardiest creatures that live on earth for 4 million years and have 4,000 species. They move at a speed of about 400 km / h, can not breathe for about an hour and go without food for 1 month.

Weevils. With their proboscises, they pierce any package. These insects breathe through microscopic holes in the skin. Hiding from straight lines sun rays in boxes with cereals, they lay up to 400-500 eggs.

Ants often get into apartments along with fruits and vegetables from home garden, vegetable garden. They feed on the remains of human food. The stings of some of the ant species are very painful for humans. Therefore, it is better to get rid of them quickly. This is fairly easy to do by spraying the area with an insect repellant.

Hay-eaters appear in any premises with constantly high humidity. These are small fragile white insects with transparent wings. They eat organic food, but long time can do without food. Mold is a favorite delicacy that attracts hay eaters in an apartment. You can get rid of their presence by eliminating pockets of constant dampness.

Fruit flies. Their larvae develop in plant debris: fruits, vegetables, etc. They are also called fruit flies. Like flies, they are carriers of infection. Entire swarms of flies may appear over rotten fruit. They should be disposed of by throwing garbage on time and observing the rules for storing and processing fruits and vegetables.

Flour crackers. The adult beetle reaches 12-19 mm in length. Its body is flat, light brown, and reddish underneath. Their larvae are 2 mm in size, yellow color and have no eyes. They eat cereals, flour. In addition to grain and flour, the beetle can start in starch, dried fruits, seeds, and also eat fabric and wool.

The bedroom is most often inhabited by:

• dust mites;
• Bedbugs;
• Leather beetles.

Ticks are creatures that feed on dead skin particles. Therefore, bed linen, mattresses, sofas and pillows for them are like a round-the-clock dining room. On average, about 10 billion individuals can be in the bed of each person. Dust mites cause an allergic reaction in people with asthma. Dust, which is formed from the remains of their vital activity, irritates the respiratory tract and lungs. In 1 sq. m carpet there are about 100,000 of them. Ticks do not survive at temperatures below zero.

Kozheed. In his body there are enzymes that can process keratin. The larvae of the skin beetle eat wool, thereby spoiling woolen things. But at the same time, they can be useful because they eat dead insects and fallen hair.

Lice. Contrary to popular belief, lice infest clean hair. It is easier to move through clean hair, as it slips less due to the absence of fat on it. AT long hair lice infest more often than in short ones, because it is more convenient to attach to them. They cling to the hairs with the help of six paws with claws. On average, no more than 5-10 individuals live on an infected head.

There are still cocoons of lice in the hair. The louse, being on the head for about a month, lays many eggs. If you do not remove the lice on time, then everyone around you can become infected. Insects drink blood at least once a day. Lice saliva prevents blood clotting. Initially, the body of a young individual is colorless, but its color changes after the first meal.

Clothes lice hide in folds dirty clothes. Their life expectancy is twice that of the head louse. They are more prolific. Through their dried feces can be transmitted dangerous diseases. For example, cootie can become a carrier of typhus and other diseases.

Mosquitoes are blood-sucking insects. Moreover, only females feed on blood. Their upper and lower lips are elongated and form a kind of pencil case, in which there are sharp and thin needles. Unlike females, in males these organs are poorly developed and they do not bite, but feed only on plant sap. Larvae and pupae of mosquitoes live in stagnant water bodies. In cities, they fill warm and damp rooms, such as basements of residential buildings.

Harmless bugs

There may be such insects at home in the bathroom:

• Silverfish;
• Woodlice;
• pintails;
• Flycatchers;
• Spiders;
• Centipedes.

The woodlouse is a garbage bug. Her body, covered with "armor", reaches a length of no more than 20 mm. They eat rot, mold, excrement, and members of their own species. Six times a year they shed their shell, becoming completely defenseless. To absorb oxygen, their gills, which are located on the abdomen, must remain moist.

These insects are able to suck up water with both ends.: mouth and tubes next to the rectum. Due to the high content of calcium in their shell, there was a time when these insects were sold in pharmacies as a cure for indigestion. So they got the name "pill beetles."

Silverfish. Little bugs that literally eat everything thanks to their body's ability to produce cellulase, a degrading enzyme. These microscopic black bugs can be seen on book spreads. They are also called bookworms.

Pintails. Another name for this insect is the earwig, or tick. Also the most common name is stinger. This is an omnivorous insect. AT apartment buildings they are most likely attracted by the presence of a variety of food and other insects, which they also feed on (or rather, their remains). Pintails reach 12-17 mm in length. Long antennae extend from the head. They can fly, but use their wings reluctantly.

They deserve special dislike for the fact that they bite painfully or pinch with their tongs, biting through the skin to blood. But they do it solely in self-defense. In addition, they are very useful in that they eat aphids.

Flycatchers. They are planted in different rooms, look like furry caterpillars. They move quickly, feed on other insects: flies, mosquitoes, midges, silverfish. They may bite in self-defense.

Spiders weave their silk webs with the help of special glands. The thread they throw out hardens on contact with air. They quietly move along their web, waiting for the victim. If the victim is caught, then she will not get out. The web in the corners looks unaesthetic, but still the benefits of the spiders themselves are undeniable. They kill harmful insects. Many spiders catch and eat insects twice their own weight in a day.

Centipedes. The length of centipedes ranges from 2 mm to 30 mm. Centipedes belong to the superclass of invertebrates, although some mistakenly consider them to be insects. Kivsyaki - one of the types of centipedes, common in Russia. They look very impressive because they look like a long black smooth caterpillar with a lot of legs.

flying arthropods

Some insects fly in through open windows and doors and settle in the house for a long time. They can be seen with the naked eye and a rather loud buzz can be heard.

flies. According to recent research, most flies sleep at night and nap during the day. The fly has a complex structure of the eye. It consists of a thousand lenses, which gives her the ability to look simultaneously in many directions. The sensitive hairs on the body allow the fly to hear sound vibrations. Their taste buds are on their paws. When choosing food, flies moisten it with saliva and absorb it. Then they burp to soften it, and then suck it up with a sponge-like mouth. They eat constantly, as well as mate. Flies live for about three weeks.

wasps. Often they make their nests in the dwellings of people. Usually these are attics, balconies, loggias, verandas. They build nests from chewed wood and fiber. Wasps often drink water, as well as sweat from people's skin. Every year, about 1.5 thousand people die from their bites. Nevertheless, they benefit by eating other insects.

mole- a well-known domestic pest, a lepidoptera insect. Moth larvae eat not only fabric, but also plant products: grains of wheat, corn, barley, oats, and also eat flour and even dry bread. Butterfly moths have been known to enter a home attracted by bright lights. And, getting into the dwelling, they settle in it forever.

insect pests

Woodworms are furniture pests that lay their eggs in depressions and small cracks. In three years, the larva grows into an adult. They make moves in the wood, where they live.

Most often, only side signs of the presence of this insect are noticeable - small holes, mounds of sawdust, damaged wooden furniture.

Human life is connected with wildlife, and insects are part of it. This neighborhood has been going on since time immemorial. Some insects have even been domesticated. For ants, there are special farms for growing them in formicaria apartments.

There are small insects in almost any apartment, even the cleanest and most tidy. These "neighbors" are not always harmful and dangerous, sometimes they are so few that they are not visible at all, but practice shows that one or another representative of this entomofauna can be found in almost any residential area.

On a note

It is interesting to note that the smallest insects in an apartment can significantly exceed the same cockroaches in the number of individuals, but at the same time, due to their small size, do not attract attention.

Therefore, if you regularly meet “incomprehensible” small insects in your apartment, you should not neglect this fact. At least ask yourself: what do they eat, where do they hide, how fast do they reproduce...

At the same time, the same ants are recognizable by everyone, and it makes no sense to help the reader separately in identifying them. Therefore, we will focus on those small insects which not everyone knows.

Silverfish: harmless extras

Some scientists consider silverfish to be the most ancient insects that exist today on the planet. They have changed little over many millions of years of evolution and very much resemble the ancestors of all modern insects.

In the photo - sugar silverfish:

And here is home thermobia:

Silverfish feed on various organic residues that are found in dust and crevices; they can eat paper, bread and sugar crumbs. They do not cause harm, and to get rid of them, it is enough to destroy the individuals seen on the walls.

small beetle species

Small domestic beetles include kozheedy, grinders, hrushchaks. They damage various products, can eat paper and spoil books. Kozheedy also damage fur coats and woolen clothes.

In the photo - a bread grinder, one of the smallest insects in the apartment:

This beetle reaches 1.5 mm in length and does not feed as an adult, although it makes moves in many products, damaging them. But its larva feeds on almost everything, including paper and fibers of semi-synthetic clothing.

Bread damaged by grinder larvae becomes poisonous to humans. You can't eat it!

Very small insects, also often found in an apartment, are leather beetles that can make holes in fur coats and furs, “cut” carpets and eat the bindings of old books:

All of the above small beetles can be quite difficult to get out of the apartment. If their larvae are wound up in products, all stocks must be thrown away, and bedside tables and shelves should be treated with insecticidal agents. In closets and bookshelves things and objects are treated with aerosol insecticides, and then it is useful to place moth sections here, which are quite effective against beetles.

Fleas

The photo below shows an adult book louse (book louse):

These insects rarely form large colonies. Even a small group of them makes distinctly audible ticking sounds, thereby betraying their presence.

Fight book lice by hanging fumigants near shelves with books and zoological or botanical collections.

Springtails - enemies of house plants

The springtail is a small white insect, in an apartment settling in the ground in flower pots and feeding on organic matter. With mass reproduction springtails can severely damage the roots of plants.

“I don’t understand what kind of attack this is in flower pots. Some insects are white, tiny, but there are so many of them that the ground is not visible. I transplanted violets and found that they are in all pots. Tell me, what kind of insects are they dangerous?

Tamara, Moscow

The photo shows a springtail at high magnification:

And below is a lump of earth taken out of a pot, infected with springtails:

These insects can be poisoned with the usual means against garden pests - Aktara or Karbofos. You can also lay out pieces of potatoes on the surface of the earth and collect insects on it every few days.

whiteflies

Whiteflies are also plant pests, which, unlike springtails, infect leaves and stems. These insects are easily recognized by their light wings.

In the photo - tobacco whitefly:

And here is the cabbage whitefly:

If these small insects appeared in the apartment, the plants should immediately be treated with alcohol infusion of calendula.

Whiteflies reproduce very quickly and suck plant sap at all stages of development. A large number of they can cause the death of the bush. In case of mass infection, they should be poisoned with Karbofos or Aktara.

Butterflies

These small insects with transparent wings in the apartment usually appear in the bathroom or toilet. Butterflies are small flies with dark fringed wings. They are well recognizable due to the special shape of the wings.

The photo shows an ordinary butterfly (Psychodidae):

Butterfly larvae develop in garbage, in basements and sewers, and adult flies can scatter throughout apartments, laying eggs in bins and dust in closets.

Sometimes in the apartment you can see very small insects, remotely similar to cockroaches or bedbugs. It could be their larvae early age(nymphs), sometimes having a translucent chitinous cover.

The photo shows a recently molted red cockroach, which looks almost white immediately after molting:

This is what a bed bug larva looks like:

Such larvae can penetrate from neighboring apartments through ventilation ducts or through doors, settling or running away from persecution. If such insects are found in single specimens, it is quite simple to destroy them. In case of mass infection of the premises, they are found as often as adult insects, in which case a thorough disinsection of the entire premises should be carried out.

A good example of how small insects in an apartment can seriously spoil life

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