Seeing this "sorokonogy" surprise at the wall with a sharp turn on the light, a man driven by one animal instinct: to destroy!Sneakers profit immediately and throw the window - that's how unflattering Flycatcher common wall of the apartment.But is there any harm friendly creatures of God, the more that it refers specifically to the insect so - at least, so far the cases of death caused by flycatchers were observed.
Features Flycatcher species common
This animal, or rather - the insect is in its Latin name: Scutigera coleoptrata.No wonder ordinary Flycatcher received his nickname - she comes from a class centipede squad flycatchers and feeds on insects.In its size flycatcher is not too high - up to 5cm, so the scale of two-bedroom apartment seems harmless bug.Just imagine what we saw Flycatcher - and I want to hug her and cry!
return to the biological description: Common flycatcher has 15 pairs of long legs and grasping, allowing to climb the walls.Monitors and luring prey insect with long antennae.Color body rather primitive - a brownish-transparent, with three black stripes along the back and legs.If you look at the face, it is slightly narrowed eyes slanted at a certain angle it seems that the flytrap smiling.
Undoubtedly, centipede flycatcher - a predator, but at the same time and Sanitation: its main diet are the termites and cockroaches, flies and cockroaches minor.Like her victim - spiders, pied inject poison into prey and then eat it.Before swat flycatcher, is worth a thousand times to think: Are we ready for such a rigorous pest control?
By the way, for those who feared for furniture, food and animals - anything like Flycatcher no ordinary paint, even more so - people.Bite flycatchers, if at all possible, equal to the midge bite or bee weak.
Habitat flycatchers limited to the southern edge of Russia, Crimea and Kazakhstan.In nature, they hide under rocks, waiting for the heat, and at night especially active and have resorted to bright light in the walls of houses and boarding houses.Flycatchers like any creature, also freezing - with the onset of cool autumn nights they run into the apartment in search of shelter.
wonder that young flycatchers are only 4 pairs of legs, with each moult increasing for another.Living these millipedes in ideal conditions, up to 7 years.
Flycatchers - whether only the insects?
In nature, the name is very common.There are carnivorous (carnivorous) plant called "Venus Flytrap", lured to their bright scarlet flowers insect and slams "fall" as soon as they sit on them.
also the world's small and cute feathered representative acts Spotted Flycatcher - this bird has a high-pitched voice and often resembles a sparrow.Flycatchers are common in damp gray and light forests in warmer parts of Europe and in the south of Siberia.Its nest is often placed on stumps snags or dried, which makes the vulnerable chicks, and the kind of flycatcher - a rare and exotic.