7 Critical Questions You Should Ask Before You Choose a Pest Control Company: November 2020

Monday, 30 November 2020

Entomology of words pertaining to Greek Gods?

Can anyone think of any other interesting words with entomology based on Greek Gods?

So due to some recent events, I looked up euthanasia to learn more about it, when I learned the entomology was the Greek word Eu (Good) and Thanatos (the Greek god of peaceful death) meaning a good, peaceful death.

I've been obsessed with the game "Hades" recently, so determining what the opposite of euthanasia would be seemed interesting to me, so I came up with the word dyskeres. Dys (greek prefix for bad) and Keres, (Thanatos' much more violent and blood craving sisters.)

The closest word I could find to this was Dyskeratosis, but that doesn't fit the bill, I'd be interested to know if anyone is familiar with any words that might be a closer match that I couldn't find.

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Danish Mayfly named 2021 insect of the year

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Recently obtained and repositioned this 1970 rice paper butterfly and it appears to have fake antennae. Do any of you know if this was a typical practice?

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Asian citrus psyllid, Los Angeles, California. One of the insects we talk about in a video we made about orange grove pests and biocontrol.

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Can anyone identify this caterpillar? Located in central Florida

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What type of butterfly is this? (the black one in the middle)

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identify this butterfly please

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Entomologists nightmare ...or dream ...??

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A cellar spider wrapping its prey. Excuse the vertical video.

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Is this a suitable enclosure for any bug. 4x4x7in, wood walls and floor, acrylic door, mesh roof that I recently fixed so the front isnt like that.

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Some more pics of pedipalps and epigynum

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Help gender id?

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You all really enjoyed my last post which featured a Green Bottle fly on a leaf. Here is another picture of what I believe is some type of Tachinid fly. I found it outside of my apartment door yesterday.

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Small, whitish moths in the pantry? Could be Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella

Sparkling scales of brown, black, and silver give the Indian meal moth a rather comely appearance.

Holiday season is baking season. Pies, cookies, cakes, and breads are comfort foods many crave on chilly days. During this season of culinary delight, cupboards and pantries receive lots of attention and activity. On a recent socially-distanced visit to a friend’s home, we noticed tiny moths flitting about the kitchen. A peek inside the pantry revealed more than a minor swarm of said moths. During this holiday season, many hopeful bakers will open pantries and be greeted by clouds of these small wonders, a cosmopolitan raider of the pantry, the Indian meal moth, Plodia interpunctella. While fascinating for entomologists, this is an unwelcome surprise for most folks.

Silk inside plastic bags or containers is a pretty sure sign of a meal moth infestation.

The adult stage of this insect is a rather small moth just slightly larger than ½ inch in length, with wings banded white and rusty red. They flit about the pantry or cupboard in search of mates and tasty products rich in carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. One recent infestation in my cupboard raged in a package of organic cashews. Within the package, small cream colored caterpillars spun silken webs and sallied forth to consume the nutritious nuts. In addition to spinning silken galleries, larvae deposited frass, the digested remains of their meal. The voided frass was entangled in silken strands to form a nasty messy web. Two excellent clues signaling the presence of meal moths are the presence of silk and frass within a bag of flour, grain, seeds, or pet food. After larvae complete development, they may gnaw holes and escape their plastic prisons. Nomadic caterpillars are often found wandering about the walls and ceiling of the pantry in search of a protected spot to spin cocoons and develop into pupae. Sometimes vagabond larvae enter cracks between shelves, lids of jars, electrical sockets, or seams behind baseboards to pupate. Soon the next generation of adults will appear, intent on finding new bags and boxes of stored products to infest.

Within a plastic bag, scads of meal moth caterpillars spin silken webs and deposit frass while devouring my once tasty organically grown cashews. While caterpillars are a rich source of protein, this much extra protein with my nuts I don’t need.

How do meal moths colonize pantries in the first place? It is possible that original infestations of meal moths arrive with cereal, seeds, dried fruit, or grain as a few tiny eggs within a package from the store. After hatching from eggs, small caterpillars in a bag of seeds in the back of a closet could go unnoticed, but this vanguard is capable of generating sufficient moths to initiate a full blown mothagedon. Meal moths also survive outdoors and are commonly found in caches of nuts or seeds stored by squirrels or rodents. Adult moths originating outdoors can invade indoor pantries during warm weather when doors and windows are wide open. Mice often enter homes in autumn and winter seeking shelter and bringing stockpiles of seeds with them. These seeds might arrive contaminated with the associated moth eggs and may become a source of infestations indoors.

Indian meal moth caterpillars can chew through plastic and invade other bags of grain, seeds, and fruit.

What should you do if you find these rascals in a pantry or cupboard? First, remove all goods and products from the storage area. Vacuum the cupboard, pantry, or cabinet like there is no tomorrow. Carefully inspect all cracks, corners, crevices, and seams in the cupboard and remove any larvae or pupae you find. Seal as many of these refuges as possible with caulk. Remove and replace loose paper used to line shelves. Inspect any pots, pans, glasses or other items occupying the pantry where food will be stored and remove any meal moths on these items as well. Inspect opened and unopened bags and boxes of food for signs of silk, frass, larvae, or moths. If in doubt, toss it out. My pantry pest guru recommends the “deep chill” treatment for unopened packages you might want to salvage, but are suspect by association. Place unopened bags in the freezer for one week, remove them for one week, and then freeze again for a final week. The intermittent week of thaw tricks eggs into hatching and the tiny caterpillars are then killed by the second trip to subzero land. When you purchase items that might serve as food for meal moths, seal them in strong plastic storage containers with tightly fitting lids. This will help prevent any moths you might have missed during the crusade from laying eggs that hatch into larvae capable of infesting your food. Try not to store prime foods like grain or dried fruit for very long periods of time. The longer stored products remain on a shelf, the more likely they are to be infested by an itinerant moth that happens by.

Pheromone traps can be used to capture male meal moths and gage their activity and numbers.

One approach useful in alerting you to an incipient invasion of meal moths is to purchase and deploy pheromone traps. These small triangular boxes are placed inside your pantry or cupboard. Inside the box is a sex pheromone bait that attracts the male meal moth from many feet away. The ever-hopeful male senses the pheromone, a chemical signal released by a female, and is tricked into believing that a receptive beauty waits inside the open-ended trap. He flies inside to find his mate, but instead becomes ensnared by a sticky substance lining the inside of the trap. By placing these traps within a pantry, you can detect the emergence of male moths that may be the harbingers of a burgeoning population of moths in your cupboard. This advanced warning serves as a signal to initiate a search and destroy mission. Good luck hunting moths and protecting your baking supplies during this season of culinary delight.

Acknowledgements

We thank Linda and Jeff for sharing their relentless Indian meal moths with Bug of the Week and Dr. Nancy Breisch for the wealth of information and advice about bugs. The Handbook of Pest Control, Ninth Edition, by Arnold Mallis was used as a resource.

The Spread of Carrots | Catalogue of Organisms

Carrots are one of the staple vegetables in this part of the world as well as in a great many others. Indeed, Wikipedia informs us that about forty million tonnes of carrots and turnips were produced worldwide in 2018, and I would have to think that carrots accounted for the greater part of that number. Wild carrots are also a widespread weed that can commonly be seen growing in disturbed, open habitats such as roadside verges. This post is about the group of plants that carrots typify, the subtribe Daucinae.

Wild carrot Daucus carota in flower, copyright Cwmhiraeth.

Daucinae is a subgroup of the plant family Apiaceae, historically known as the Umbelliferae. The latter name refers to the characteristic production of flowers in dense, flat-topped inflorescences known as umbels. Anyone who is familiar with the appearance of carrot flower-heads is familiar with the form of an umbel; the wild form of carrot is often known as "Queen Anne's lace" in reference to said appearance. The fruit of Apiaceae species is a schizocarp, a dry fruit that splits at maturity into segments (called mericarps), each containing a single seed, that are dispersed independently. In Daucinae and related group of umbellifers, the mericarps carry longitudinal ribs, both primary ribs containing a vascular bundle and secondary ribs without. The secondary ribs of Daucinae are often modified to form broad wings or curved spines that function in the mericarp's dispersal.

Broad-leafed sermountain Laserpitium latifolium seedheads, showing wings, copyright Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.

Historically, these differences in mericarp morphology have been used to assign the species bearing them to different tribes. However, more recent phylogenetic analyses have indicated that changes between wings and spines have occurred on multiple occasions due to changes in mode of dispersal (Wojewódzka et al. 2019). Mericarps bearing wings are generally anemochorous (dispersed by wind) whereas those bearing spines are epizoochorous (carried by animals, such as stuck to a mammal's fur). The distinction is not 100% immutable: winged seeds may sometimes get caught in fur, spined seeds may be carried slightly further by wind than smooth ones. Phylogenies indicate that anemochory was the ancestral condition for Daucinae, retained in genera such as Laserpitium and Thapsia. Epizoochorous species do not form a single clade within the Daucinae (indeed, the genus Daucus includes both anemochorous and epizoochorous species) but it is unclear to what degree epizoochory arose on multiple occasions versus reversions to anemochory from epizoochorous ancestors. Two species of Daucinae, Daucus dellacellae from the Cyrenaica region of northern Africa and Cryptotaenia elegans from the Canary Islands, have neither spines nor wings on their mericarps which are therefore dispersed by gravity alone. In the case of C. elegans, at least, it has been suggested that it evolved from epizoochorous ancestors that lost the spines because of the absence of suitable dispersing animals on the islands (Banasiak et al. 2016).

Though the carrot Daucus carota is perhaps the most widely grown daucine umbellifer, it is not the only economically significant member of the group. Cumin Cuminum cyminum, whose seeds are widely used as a spice, is either a daucine or a close relative of daucines (Banasiak et al. 2016). Cuminum does differ from other daucine genera in that its mericarps lack appendages on the secondary keels, however. Gladich Laser trilobum is a perennial found growing in Europe and western Asia whose seeds are used as a condiment. Certain species of the deadly carrot genus Thapsia have a history of medicinal usage though, as their vernacular name suggests, their use does require caution. One species, T. garganica, is among the suggested candidates for the identity of the mysterious silphium of the Romans (used, among other things, as an abortifacient) though perhaps not the most likely contender. That, perhaps, is a story for another time.

REFERENCES

Banasiak, Ł., A. Wojewódzka, J. Baczyński, J.-P. Reduron, M. Piwczyński, R. Kurzyna-Młynik, R. Gutaker, A. Czarnocka-Ciecura, S. Kosmala-Grzechnik & K. Spalik. 2016. Phylogeny of Apiaceae subtribe Daucinae and the taxonomic delineation of its genera. Taxon 65 (3): 563–585.

Wojewódzka, A., J. Baczyński, Ł. Banasiak, S. R. Downie, A. Czarnocka-Ciecura, M. Gierek, K. Frankiewicz & K. Spalik. 2019. Evolutionary shifts in fruit dispersal syndromes in Apiaceae tribe Scandiceae. Plant Systematics and Evolution 305: 401–414.

Sunday, 29 November 2020

Ants and queues

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wholesale butterfly and insects?

I was wondering if anyone would share some links to wholesale suppliers of butterfly and insect specimens? Thank you

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is my buddy a boy or a girl? also which breed is it? is not really blue

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Treating some old sheet music (circa 1857-1900) for conservation purposes and found this squashed little guy. Can someone ID? Is it an earwig?

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New animal

I'm thankful for my new tarantula, Chollá (Aponophelma chalcodes). She is very pleasant tempered, and hasn't bitten me yet. Also very fluffy : )

#GiveThanks

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What is this amazing insect casing from!?

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Hornworm moths

I am raising some hornworms into moths and am wondering what kind of plant should be in their enclosure.

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Can someone ID these bugs I found under some bark? Especially the ones that look like living gummy worms? Found in PA

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Question Mark butterfly - Southern NJ

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Where to find Giant African Millipedes in the USA?

Hello, so I’m in search for a website or someone who could sell me an Giant African Millipede. It’s pretty hard for me to find some and I’ve found about 2, but one is located within the U.K. and the other is super pricy. I like to compare my prices and AGMs are my dream species to own, (I own 2 different species of millipedes, Smokey Oaks and Florida Ivories) if you have any suggestions or answers, please comment!

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I am thinking about starting a colony of mealworm beetles. Does anyone have a know what kind that of habitat works beat for them?

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i heard yall like katydids (mexican bush katydid nymph)

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Looking for an insect display case for a gift!

Hi everyone ! I will admit I have no idea what I’m talking about so please be kind.

I want to get my partner an insect display case, but I’m having a hard time finding one via google. I have seen a lot of people recommending Etsy shops etc, but would really appreciate some recommendations for genuine, high-quality displays.

What I’m looking for: - price: doesn’t matter - insect type: some that are rarer would be cool, but not strict - would like one with the scientific labels (not sure what to call these) but they are on pins? - located in US preferably

Again I’m sorry if this sounds so ignorant ! Really appreciate the help !!

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58,000 members in r/Entomology! Here’s a cup of Emerald Ash Borers!

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does anyone know what this is? Located in west central Florida

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Graphium Agamemnon - dorsal and ventral view

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What is this mite?

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Saturday, 28 November 2020

Aphonopelma chalcodes (Arizona Blonde)

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Can anyone ID this guy? Found on a petunia plant from my backyard in Phoenix, Arizona. It’s probably about a half inch long.

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Tarantulas For Sale!

T. Blondi, C. Versicolor, Seladonia, H Maculata, P. Platyomma, Brazilian White Knee, all for sale. DM or Messge me for more info and prices

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Are spiders allowed?

Not an insect, but my local black house spider ( Badumna insignis). She lives in my laundry light, and has a body size of about 18mm, the upper size limit for the species. With her many spiderlings. Her adult daughter also lives on the other side of the web.

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This is Trigonometopus vittatus, found in my back yard. When I posted this on iNat I was excited to find out that it was the first post on the site for this species in the world!

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Found this guy down by the beach today. I'm surprised to still be seeing them so late in the year.

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Thought I'd share my Bugtober gals I made this year!

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Stink bug rolling a dust ball

A few days ago I've captured a stink bug with a glass in a pretty dusty corner of my room and completely forgot about it. It just came into my mind that it's still there and that I should probably get rid of it. But as I approached, I've realized that it's on its back, rolling a ball of dust with its legs. The bug collected all the dust from under the glass and shaped it into a perfect ball shape. I got pretty scared because I tought it was laying eggs in it, so I threw the whole thing outside. I'm really interested in finding out what it was really doing, because I can't find an answer on the internet.

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This bug started appearing in my Dart Frog enclosure. Any ideas what it is?

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A beautiful crowned slug moth larva I found (Isa textula)

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Bought some dubias to feed them to my lizard but they grew up and now i love them.. no one understands

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A bee while fly near a flower

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Good lunch!

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Found this insect on my wall. I did some googling and I think it is a concrete mite. Can somebody please ID it? Should I be worried? I also have a cat, could it be harmful to her?

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Closeup of a leafhopper nymph, possibly Penthimia guttula

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Hello! We are intrigued by this little nest we found when we turned over a plastic table. Some kind of wasp? Peg included for scale. South Coast, South Africa.

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Friday, 27 November 2020

The Roach and the Darkness

I heard a bag rustle behind me, cloaked in the darkness of my room. I turn to look, at first taking only a glance as I assure myself it’s nothing. But upon a curious second gaze I whiteness it. A large cockroach scurrying along the baseboard, his dark brown pill body contrasting against the faded cream color of the molding. I get up with the grace of fear, sliding my hand over a shoe for the imminent execution. I lock onto my target, he freezes as if we are two cowboys about to draw. Before I make my move he slither-sprints into the closet. A bold choice, on one hand the density of the piled clothes and shoes will give him shelter, on the other he has just trapped himself. One way in, one way out and the only door I’m leaving open for him is straight to the abominable pit of insect Hell he dwells from. Upon entry he takes to a pile of winter clothes yet to be filed. This works momentarily as he goes in and out trying to confuse me, but alas I pull the clothes from him, he is exposed. But he’s got intellect, this is no moron arthropod, he bolts for the shoes, hiding under each heal like Odysseus in the troll cave. Clever. With each shoe I pull he takes cover in the next, he’s got me, until I use the very shoe he regards as his savior, to crush his mortal being. At first this is unsuccessful, one crunch two crunch three crunch four he’s still alive the bloody whore. But with one final head smearing press of a boot heal he is no more. His carcass immobile, I, a god among insects, stand over him laughing as his puny soul sinks into endless darkness.

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Can somebody help ID this little bastard

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To my surprise my plumeria plant has been infested by these caterpillars after some rainfall. Does anyone know what species of moth they belong to? Location: ABC islands in the Caribbean

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Encouraging a budding entomologist

My son is 11 and fascinated by insects and Arthropods. I’m trying to get him away from so much YouTube so I am encouraging podcasts. What buggy but child friendly podcasts would you recommend? He is extremely intelligent (He wanted to show me a video the other day that turned out to be one assigned to me for grad school!) so I don’t worry about the information being over his head, but I would like to avoid cursing or too many innuendo jokes.

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