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Brown insect at home. Why do small brown bugs appear in the apartment: who are they and how to destroy harmful insects

I'm sure many of you have experienced the same problem as black bugs in the apartment. Moreover, they can appear not only in a dirty, requiring general cleaning, apartment. They can also visit clean homeowners.

When they are discovered, naturally, questions arise: who are they, where did they come from, and, of course, how to effectively get rid of bugs? In our article you will find answers to all your questions.

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Where and how do small black bugs appear in the house?

In fact, it is very difficult to say where exactly these bugs come from in the apartment. There are many loopholes through which they can get into your home.

Here are the main ones:

• Small cracks in the walls become an excellent way for bugs to enter a person's home. Due to their small size, they are quite capable of crawling through even the smallest cracks.
• Ventilation holes. If your ventilation is not equipped with protection, then you are at great risk of “housing” not only small bugs, but also large insects and even rodents.
• Window. When ventilating the room, do not forget to put on a protective mesh on the window. It is able to protect the house not only from mosquitoes and flies, but also from small flying insects in the apartment. It will also be useful to check the tightness closed doors and windows.
• And, of course, you should not exclude the fact that you yourself can be a carrier of small insects.. As a rule, bugs get tangled in the hair or clothing of a person.

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These little bugs are called beetles, sometimes called flour bugs. They got this name due to the fact that the main site of the lesion is cereals. They are capable of destroying large stocks bulk products.

In total, there are 3 types of these:

• big beetle;
• little beetle;
• black beetle.

Below we will analyze each of the types of pests.

It is very difficult to confuse this insect with others. The large beetle differs in its length. Its flat body can sometimes reach 13 mm in length.

Its back has a black-brown color with a slightly distinguishable greasy sheen. Has a small mustache. And the elytra of the greater beetle are noticeably punctured.

Its larva can reach 2.5 cm in length. It has a brown-yellow color. By itself, the larva is cylindrical in shape with a naked body.

The body of the larva has three pairs of legs with claws. Her upper jaws are bifurcated. The posterior segment of the body ends with two hooks.

The pupa of a large beetle has a snow-white color. At its rear end, two small spikes can be observed.

You can meet this insect everywhere. Settles in places of storage of various cereals, for example, at a bakery, flour warehouses. A female beetle is capable of laying up to 200 eggs.

During their development, the larvae feed mainly on grains, bran and flour. In addition to plant food, they are also able to absorb the dried corpses of rodents and birds. The period of formation of the beetle lasts about a year. During this time, the larva manages to molt four times.

In my own way appearance a small hrushchak is similar to the previous view, but its size is much smaller. The length of the hruschak does not exceed 3.6 mm.

Unlike the big one, the little bug is not capable of flying, although it does have wings. Also, its feature is that males have a hairy rounded end of the abdomen. In females, it is naked. The color of the little beetle is red, closer to brown.

The larva of the small beetle is slightly flat. Its length can reach 7 mm. The color varies from light yellow to yellow-brown. The head of the larva is flattened.

Unlike the large beetle, the small larva has a body covered with hairs. It also ends with two small spikes. The pupa has a pale yellow color, the body is completely naked, shiny.

This type of beetle has found distribution in Russia and Ukraine. Also at various granaries, mills and other places where bulk cereals are stored.

It should be noted that in well-heated rooms, mainly larvae overwinter, and it is not often possible to meet beetles there.

The female baby beetle can lay up to 1000 eggs at a time. It mostly happens in food bags.

Unlike a large beetle, a small beetle develops much faster: from 20 to 120 days. The rate of development of the larva depends on the conditions of stay and the availability of food.

The length of the black beetle varies from 5.1 to 5.5 mm. The coloration is dark, very often black. In appearance, it is very similar to a small beetle, but larger.

The larva of the little black beetle is very similar in appearance to the larva of the little beetle. The only difference is the length. In this type of pest, it reaches 12 mm.

Unlike the two previous species, the black beetle is able to develop only in well-heated rooms.

But it does more harm. In addition to cereals, grains and flour, the black beetle is also capable of destroying pepper, knitwear and nylon products.

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Harm of black bugs

Despite their small size, hrushchaks can cause a lot of harm to the owners of the apartment.

Due to their omnivorous nature, bugs can spoil a huge amount of food and things. They do not mind eating grains, bran, flour. They will also like dried fruits, chocolate, glue and knitwear and nylon products.

In addition to being ready to eat and infect all of the above, beetles contaminate food and utensils with waste products and skins of developed larvae. Even for the most a short time bugs can fill all the lockers, so you should get rid of insects immediately.

How to get rid of black bugs at home?

Upon detection flour bug Of course, you can try to save the products. They can be sifted and sorted out. But remember that in this way, you will only get rid of the larvae and the beetles themselves. Even the most thorough processing will not allow you to remove the eggs of the beetle.

Below you can see detailed instructions to get rid of the hruschak:

1. First of all, get rid of bulk products. In this case, you should not regret and try to save non-infected cereals. In any case, they are absolutely not suitable for eating them.
2. Check all lockers carefully. Then dilute the following solution: one tablespoon of soda per liter of water. This mixture will repel pests. Wash and sanitize cabinets. Then air them thoroughly. All utensils should be washed with detergent and poured over with boiling water.
3. Treat all surfaces in the kitchen with acetic acid.
4. Be sure to treat the floors and baseboards in the apartment with Dichlorvos or any of its analogues.
5. Purchase bulk containers with tight-fitting lids.

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Prevention

In order to avoid the appearance of these pests, you must also observe the following rules:

1. Keep kitchen cabinets and drawers clean and free from contamination. Regularly carry out wet cleaning inside the lockers.
2. Periodically treat drawers and cabinets with acetic acid or a solution of soda and water.
3. Place garlic cloves in cereal bags. This will repel insects.
4. It is also worth laying out bags with lavender, lemon and bay leaf in the cabinets. It will also protect you from beetles.
5. Don't stock large amounts of food. It will be better if you buy them as needed. Be sure to store bulk in hermetically sealed containers.
6. Check your products regularly for pests.

Conclusion

Remember that it is much easier to prevent the appearance of a beetle than to get rid of it later.

Keep the apartment clean, regularly inspect food and things for unwanted insects. If they are found, immediately take measures to get rid of them, do not allow the reproduction of the beetle. Only if you follow the rules will you avoid such a nuisance as the appearance of small black bugs in your house.

This is what the brown bugs look like in the photo in high magnification.

A typical skin beetle is a small brown bug

Biology of the enemy

Kozheedy - insects from the order Coleoptera, or beetles. Nature created them not to harm people, but with a very specific practical purpose. And this will be the spoonful of honey that we will add to the general barrel of negative narrative about brown bugs in the apartment.

So, in natural environment kozheedy are natural orderlies. They settle and destroy the remains of fallen animals and insects, thereby clearing the planet of this kind of garbage. And from this point of view, they are naturally useful.

But when these little brown bugs start up inside human habitation, they immediately move into the rank of the most dangerous pests.

Description

These flying brown bugs can range in length from 1.3 to 13 millimeters, with a width of up to five millimeters. The body itself is convex with an oval profile of brown, brown or black. Under the hard elytra there are true wings, which may be absent in some species. The cover of the surface of the elytra can be formed by tiny hairs or scales.

Lifestyle

In nature, skin beetles are found almost everywhere except in the coldest or dampest geographic areas. Their number is especially large in semi-deserts and deserts, but in the tundra they live because of severe frosts. In the forests of the middle climatic zone, they are rare, and in the humid jungle of the Amazon, for example, they are completely absent.

Therefore, brown bugs will not settle in damp apartments and kitchens, they need dry, even overdried air, which we provide in winter period central heating batteries.

Most species of skin beetles are diurnal, some may be active at dusk or at night. The larvae naturally feed around the clock.

reproduction

Reproduction of kozheedov occurs like most species of beetles. Usually this is an annual cycle, only some species in the southern geographical zones are able to produce two offspring per year. At the same time, there are such skin beetles, the larvae of which develop for several years.

The larva, after emerging from the egg, goes through several cycles, up to eight molts, before pupating. But the pupa develops rapidly, in order to pass its generation, it takes from four to twenty days, depending on temperature conditions.

Nutrition

It is difficult to find an organic object that would not be suitable for skin eaters. These bugs can process almost all organic matter. Judge for yourself, in their diet there are such objects:

• leather;
• fur;
• feathers;
• stuffed animals and birds;
• natural fabrics, especially silk;
• meat;
• cereals;
• powdered milk;
• dried or dried fish;
• books.

Often kozheedy settle in wasp and bee nests, eating dead insects and other dry matter there. Insects cause severe harm to silk production, because of the special love for silkworm cocoons.

Attention! Human skin beetles are also considered food, while their bites are not only painful, but also dangerous. Beetles can be carriers of bacteria or microorganisms dangerous to humans.

Kinds

The most common are five types of kozheed. It is these bugs that are most often found in our houses and apartments.

1. Ham. It is considered the most common, eats almost everything: from food to wood. Often used by taxidermists to process the bones of future stuffed animals. Grows up to a centimeter in length.
2. Fur coat. It lives in accumulations of house dust, where it feeds on various organic residues. Small brown-black bug 4-6 millimeters.
3. Carpet. This one, unlike a fur coat, can just damage fur coats and other furs and skins, the pest climbs both into food and into pillows for feathers. Rarely grows up to half a centimeter. The color of the elytra is brown.
4. Grain. Quite a baby with a brown body length of three millimeters. Damages cereals and grains.
5. Spotted. This skin-eater is one of the most dangerous along with the ham relative. Spoils meat, skins, furs, fish and other products. Criminologists often determine the age of a corpse by its distribution. The length is from five to ten centimeters, the color is brown with small specks of lighter tones.

Harm

Now we will tell you what kozheeds can eat in our house, and what, in fact, they are harmful. Depending on where these bugs are wound up, they can damage:

• fabrics;
• cardboard;
• wallpaper glue;
• book spines;
• flakes "hercules";
• fish;
• cereals;
• fur;
• skin.

In addition, kozheeds climb into feather and down pillows, and crawling out from there, bite people, which is very painful and dangerous with infections.

Advice! In no case do not eat foods damaged by skin beetles. This is dangerous for your health!

Where do they come from

In addition to the fact that insects penetrate through open windows or window vents and all kinds of gaps in them, there are several more ways for leather beetles to enter the apartment. Let us briefly outline the paths of saboteurs:

• purchase of new products already infected with bugs;
• on the body of pets after a walk;
• ventilation ducts.

In any case, you need to be careful and careful.

Advice! Trouble is easier to prevent than to deal with!

Risk factors

Skin beetles spread most of all in those rooms in which the so-called risk zones are located or there are objects that are of particular attraction to insects. Especially carefully you need to monitor the appearance of bugs if your home has:

• pets, whose hair beetles love to eat;
• the same applies to stuffed animals;
• fur coats, sheepskin coats, leather jackets your wardrobe is a very attractive place for leather-eaters;
• the pride of your home a big library- also belongs to the risk zone.

How to fight

In order not to start a grueling struggle with an insidious enemy, you need to take care of the cleanliness and humidity of your home. Of course, you should not fill the apartment with water, so that the corners begin to become moldy, moreover, in this situation in the house, there will be other pests.

But it is reasonable to humidify the air, especially in winter, when radiators dry it, it is necessary. To do this, towels are hung on hot pipes or simply sprinkled with water from a spray bottle.

But if, nevertheless, the enemy broke through, you need to destroy it.

To get rid of small bugs in the kitchen and other rooms, you can apply the following methods:

1. Freezing. It is authentically known that more than three hours kozheedy will not bear the temperature below -11 degrees. But in the conditions of a city apartment, this method is not applicable, unless the public utilities cause an accident in the winter.
2. Heat. Things infected with bugs can simply be boiled, and books and stuffed animals can be treated with hot steam.
3. Boric acid. This tool is used against various insects, it also acts on skin beetles.
4. Other chemicals. Act on kozheedov and conventional chemicals against moths, for example: "Raid", "Raptor", "Antimol", "Armol", "Clean House". Here it must be borne in mind that the first time the remedy may not destroy all insects, and after the second time they may develop immunity. Therefore, in subsequent treatments, chemicals with a different active substance must be used. In addition, you can change the processing method: tablets, powders, aerosol, etc.

If no measures have helped you, or you simply have no time to deal with them on your own, call in specialists who will sanitize your home.

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Often, small brown bugs appear in a person’s home, which can be seen in closets with clothes, in grocery bags, as well as in carpets, in upholstered furniture, under baseboards and among indoor plants. It can be anthrenuses or kozheedy beetles. It is not so easy to get rid of these insects, but one should not hope that they will leave their home on their own. This article talks about how to get rid of these insects and in what ways.

These bugs can be seen everywhere:

• Under skirting boards.
• In places of storage of bulk products.
• In wardrobes.
• Behind the batteries of the heating system.
• In carpets and paths.
• On indoor ornamental plants.
• Inside various furniture.
• Close to heating appliances.
• On the windowsills.
• In places where smoked and dried products, including meat, are stored.
• In places where grain or peanuts are stored.
• among waste paper.

Larvae of skin beetles are quite tenacious compared to adult beetles. They can live for several weeks without food. Dry places, including behind baseboards, in corners, and near back wall furniture cabinet, for them all conditions for normal life are created. It does not penetrate into such places. sunlight, which creates comfortable conditions for these insects.

How do insects enter a person's home?

There are many ways for such insects to enter an apartment or house. For example:

• Through open doors, windows and vents, if they are not protected by anything.
• With bought or donated old books or furniture.
• With things that were in use, if they are bought from the hands.
• Inside products if they have not been properly stored.
• With grains or cereals.
• With dried products bought at the supermarket.
• From attics and basements, if they are not looked after by special services.
• With dried mushrooms or dried fruits, as well as with medicinal herbs bought on the market.
• With old carpets, also bought from hand.

It is quite difficult to somehow prevent the appearance of these pests due to small size. Since they are difficult to notice even when viewed, as they Brown color allows them to disguise themselves, then they easily penetrate into a person’s home.

Types of small brown bugs with photos and names

In the dwelling of a person, kozheedy beetles mainly appear, and antrenuses live in old carpets. Compared to some insects, these bugs do not like excess moisture. Therefore, they are unlikely to be found in the bathroom, and in other rooms, if the dwelling has high humidity.

All owners should be aware of these bugs, since the insects are harmful and can cause serious damage if allowed to multiply to innumerability. In small quantities, serious damage can hardly be expected.

Life features:

• The diet of skin beetles includes various organic matter, such as fur, leather, flowers, fluff, products, feathers, etc.
• Insects grow in length from 2 to 4 mm and have a dark brown or black color. The larvae are distinguished by a yellow-brown tint, as well as a rounded body with a narrowing.
• The grain kozheed prefers to eat nuts, peanuts, cereals, grains, bran, as well as flour of any kind.
• Ham kozheed penetrates into meat products, as well as into smoked meats and dried fish. Leather beetles tolerate temperature extremes perfectly, so they can live in basements, attics, bird nests, etc.
• The period of development of the kozheed beetle is from 6 to 12 months, starting from the laid egg and ending with the adult beetle. The female is able to lay up to hundreds of eggs.
• Beetles choose places where they do not penetrate Sun rays and where it is dry and dusty.

On a note! These bugs are so small that many owners do not pay attention to them, much less realize how dangerous they are. If you do not immediately take measures to get rid of them, then after a while they will be in the home everywhere.

Description of insects:

• They grow in length from 1 to 4 mm and are almost black, and often brown.
• These bugs choose old carpet products for their life activity.
• Insects are practically omnivorous, since they can eat crumbs, particles of the epidermis, human hair, pile, organic matter that they find on old carpets.
• Finding the larvae of these bugs is just as difficult, because they hide among the villi.
• If these insects are few, then they cannot cause serious damage. Despite this, they can cause allergies in people prone to this disease.
• If there are too many bugs, then spoiled things can serve as the result of their vital activity.

The damage caused by these insects

Leather beetles and antrenuses at certain conditions capable of causing significant harm. These pests gnaw drywall, wooden furniture including electrical wiring. These insects can be found in any of the rooms of a human dwelling.

Tiny insects can infect humans various types diseases as they move various surfaces sometimes littered with pathogens. This is the case when talking about sanitation does not make sense at all.

How to get rid: effective methods

First of all, it is necessary to determine the places of accumulation of these pests. Therefore, you will have to look behind the baseboards, examine the furniture in the kitchen, wardrobes with clothes, bookshelves and other places.

It is important to know! This stage requires a serious approach, because soon larvae will appear from the eggs and then it will be much more difficult to deal with the pest.

After that, you need to decide on the means of struggle. To do this, you need to at least approximately know the degree of infection, as well as the conditions that allow you to use chemicals fight. If future mothers, small children, allergy sufferers or infirm family members live in the apartment, then it is better to refuse such an undertaking.

In this case, it is better to give preference to folk remedies, although they are not as effective as chemical substances. Often the situation is such that folk remedies unable to cope with the task and have to resort to the services of special services. This approach will quickly and guaranteed to get rid of these bugs.

If a decision is made to fight insects on your own, then you need to be prepared for the fact that this can take more than one day and you need to find temporary housing, since all family members, along with pets, will have to be evacuated from the apartment.

The complexity of self-processing is as follows:

• Needs to be processed large area, so this can take a long time, without special equipment, and only professionals have it.
• We'll have to check all the food, the flowerpots, all the drawers and all the cupboards.
• It is imperative to do general cleaning, with the removal of old, unnecessary things, and also thoroughly vacuum all places.
• If you manage to get rid of the dusty, dark, secluded places where these insects like to hide, then the task of getting rid of them will be noticeably simplified.

How to remove bugs yourself

If you try hard, then you can really bring out such insects on your own, but for this you will have to do some actions. For example:

• Arm yourself with a vacuum cleaner disposable bag– dust collector, vacuum all carpets and hard-to-reach places, after which it is better to take out the carpets in the sun or in the cold.
• Boil things in soapy water.
• Things made of leather or leatherette are best treated with chemicals.
• Handle upholstered furniture using a steam generator.
• Wool and artificial materials can also be taken out in the cold.
• Make an audit of food stocks, reviewing everything, especially bulk food.
• Remove all things from the cabinets where they are stored, after which the cabinets should be disinfected by wiping the inside with soapy water.
• Check wooden structures for cracks and cracks. It is better to seal all cracks and cracks with some kind of sealant.

Helpful Hints:

• After preparatory operations, all cracks and cracks in the floor, in baseboards, all corners and hard-to-reach places, furniture are processed either with an aerosol or with a special solution. It is better not to buy universal preparations, but to select those that are designed to combat harmful bugs. Such drugs are available.
• Processing is carried out twice a week for one month. This approach allows you to get rid of the bugs completely. After treatment, the floors are thoroughly washed and vacuumed.
• Boric acid shows good results in the fight against insects. The powder can be bought at a pharmacy and pour it into all the cracks and cracks. This is where pests hide. Each sachet can contain only 10 g of powder, so you will have to buy several of these sachets. Dignity boric acid in that it is safe for humans (non-toxic) and for pets, but for many insects it is death, although not momentary. But this does not mean at all that it can be scattered where it does not fall, especially if there are small children in the house. Nothing serious will happen, but diarrhea is guaranteed.

Prevention measures

Despite the very small size of kozheedov and antrenus beetles, the fight against them takes a lot of time. But the struggle may turn out to be useless if a number of measures are not taken that will protect a person’s housing from their repeated invasion. That's why:

• All windows must be fitted with mosquito nets.
• Install gratings with small cells on all ventilation systems.
• If a cat or a dog lives at home, then you need to constantly clean up their hair, the object of food for anthrenuses.
• Get rid of old, unnecessary things in a timely manner. Even if no one wears clothes, they attract dust to themselves, and this is a favorable environment for these tiny insects.
• If things are sent for storage, then before that it is better to treat them with a 0.005% solution of permine, an anti-pediculosis agent. This will protect things from the appearance of moth larvae and leather beetles.
• From time to time, all things must be taken out into the street (to the balcony) at any time of the year, but it is better when it is sunny and frosty in winter, and in summer, when there is a real summer heat. This kills both larvae and adults. This simple procedure will help protect things from infection by many insects.
• After working with a vacuum cleaner, it is advisable to take out bags - dust collectors in the cold. Especially carefully you need to vacuum carpets and rugs, as well as blackout curtains, covers for armchairs and sofas.
• Periodically clean upholstered furniture with a steam generator, which will help get rid of small bugs hidden in the folds and seams of the upholstery.
• Use garlic to repel insects Bay leaf, which can be simply decomposed into containers where food is stored.
• In order to block insects from entering the home, it is necessary to close up all the cracks, cracks and just holes that often occur in rooms such as kitchens, bathrooms, and even in rooms. Builders could have left them when they made the heating, plumbing, gas and sewerage systems.

The appearance of any insects, especially in large numbers, in a human dwelling can be considered as an emergency. Every housewife should have information about what insects can appear in the apartment and know what they look like. In most cases, these are harmful and dangerous insects, as they intend to spoil everything, literally. In addition, they can infect households with various, and sometimes very dangerous ailments. Therefore, suspecting the appearance of any pests, you should immediately try to get rid of them in any way possible.

Beetles in the kitchen are always an unexpected and unpleasant phenomenon. Moreover, they can start regardless of the cleanliness of the room. Unexpected guests appear as if from nowhere, crawling along the shelves of cabinets, spoiling the food and mood of the hostess.

A beetle in the kitchen is not good

Most often, small beetles start up and cereals. Can occupy beans, dried fruits, pasta. They are distinguished by high survivability and unpretentiousness. The life span is from 1 to 8 months. Insect development begins at temperatures above 15C, but it feels best at +30C.

Classification of bugs that can start in the kitchen

What insects can start in the apartment? Home bugs have many varieties, but four species usually settle in the kitchen: a small beetle, a bread grinder, a red flour eater, and an Indian moth.

Khrushchak

Small brown insect with short antennae and 3 mm body. Likes starch, flour. Products spoiled by the beetle become lumpy, cause an upset esophagus.

Mukoed

A small 2 mm reddish-brown beetle with stiff wings and long antennae. Settles in wet products. The appearance of a flour eater is evidenced by a eaten sieve for flour.

It is super gluttonous and omnivorous. It feeds on cereals, beans, flour, tea, nuts, coffee, gingerbread, tobacco. The body is covered with hairs, has an oval shape, brown color.

Features of small brown and black house bugs

Homemade brown bugs do not like bright light. Environment has a huge impact on their lives. Therefore, in order to prevent bugs in the croup, it must be stored in transparent jars that let the sun's rays through well.

The life of insects depends on temperature conditions. Despite the fact that brown bugs are very tenacious in the apartment, they do not tolerate temperatures below -15C and above +50C.

It is considered the most unpleasant pest. Having noticed white larvae or gray butterflies in the croup, you can safely throw out the product.

Prevention in cabinets

Small bugs in the kitchen are very tenacious creatures. Even “super-housewives” are not immune from them. Small bugs in the apartment do not appear from a lack of hygiene. Pests can be brought in when buying already infected products.

When choosing pasta, flour, cereals, you need to carefully examine the packaging, check its integrity and expiration date. Do not purchase bulk products with strange impurities. It is not recommended to purchase cereals by weight or from unknown manufacturers. It is better to give preference to trusted companies that use high-quality packaging.

Make a rule for yourself: immediately after purchase, place the cereal for a couple of days in the freezer.

To reduce the risk of unpleasant guests in the kitchen, following simple rules will help:

Small pest control methods

In order to get rid of beetles, you will have to be patient and time. First you need to carefully examine the pasta, cereals, flour, dried fruits. It is worth preparing for the fact that you will have to get rid of contaminated products, even if the pack was opened recently.

If the small black bugs in the apartment did not have time to occupy the entire territory, then you can try to save the products:

1. Sort by hand or with a sieve, then rinse gently under running water.
2. Ignite in the oven at a temperature of + 50C ... + 100C. This must be done carefully to prevent damage to the product.
3. Pour in saline solution and rinse thoroughly.

I must say that the bugs in the beans are a separate case. You won't be able to get rid of them with the above methods. Even if only a couple of grains are infected in the package, then most likely the larvae have occupied the rest.

Experts do not advise eating cereals affected by bugs. Even after sorting through the product and removing the adults, one cannot be completely sure that there are no larvae. The situation is slightly different with flour. If you pass it through a fine sieve, then heat it in the oven, then you can talk about the purity of the product.

Heavy artillery

Bugs in cereals will disappear completely if you act according to a certain scheme:

1. Review the products again, in the absence of visible traces of insects, remove cereals for a week in freezer. If the brown bugs in the kitchen managed to lay their eggs, then in 7 days they will ripen (or die) and it will become clear whether the products are suitable for consumption.
2. Rinse several times kitchen cabinets using a good chlorine-containing agent (for example, Domestos) or hot vinegar water.
3. If after a week the cereal remains clean, decompose it into glass jars with tight lids.

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Now you know what to do if there are bugs in the kitchen.

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 pay no attention to yourself.

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

Fleas are small in the apartment that suck the blood of people and pets.

The photo shows a rat flea, a potential carrier of plague:

There are also human, cat and dog fleas. All of them are very similar to each other, and it will be problematic for a non-specialist to distinguish one species from another.

With abundant reproduction, fleas can cause serious bites with their bites. allergic reactions in a person.

Fleas are brought out separately, first on animals, and then in the apartment itself. In the first case, special flea drops on the withers, anti-flea shampoos and sprays are used, in the second, powerful insect repellents in aerosol form or in the form of concentrates for dilution and subsequent spraying in the form of a spray.

book louse

The book louse is a very small brownish insect that lives in book bindings and feeds on paste.

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 white color, tiny, but there are so many of them that the earth 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 killed with conventional insect repellents. 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 them 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. These may be their early larvae (nymphs), sometimes with 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 this 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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