beetle-barbel (or beetle woodcutter) belongs to the family of Coleoptera, the detachment which includes more than 25 thousand species of insects.Their development is connected with shrubs and trees of different species.Beetles accurately determine the suitability of a particular tree to feed their larvae.
Who's beetle-barbel?
The adult length is 22 mm.Females are capable of putting up hundreds of eggs in the cracks pine blanks: floors, rafters, doors.Because of eggs larvae are born into the world, feeding on the tree.The larva turns into a pupa, but this transformation lasts for a very long time, sometimes up to 10 years.It grows up to 30 mm and eats dry wood with their jaws crunching that you can even hear.
beetle-barbel - risk home
After leaving the beetle pupa gnaws way out.This hole rot - the only visible fact sabotage this insect.If you try to stick the knife in the wound a tree, then it will go gently, as if in oil.
also beetle larvae barbel eats flowers, pistils, leaves, young bark.The greatest harm it brings larva beetle barbel, which develops in many kinds of trees, destroying them.Larvae are hardy.If the tree withers and dies slowly, they can exist in an environment of up to 45 years and then turn into a dwarf beetles.Externally barbel larva has a yellowish or white flattened body with well-developed chest and dragged her head.Ends strong jaws larva dark-colored, extended forward.
beetle-barbel different slender elongated torso and unusual antennae, which in some species even longer than the calf.At the base of the antennae located kidney-shaped eyes.
beetle-barbel, common in the forests of the Amazon, grows to a length of 180 mm, the Brazilian species - up to 140 mm.The longest barbel Russia lives in the Ussuri taiga (its length is 100 mm).Of course, there are minor variations.All kinds of cracks in the brickwork made of wood, or gnaw the bark of small caves.
Brownies barbel
There are varieties of long-horned beetles, have become unwelcome companions of people.For example, Hylotrupes bajulus - small size representative of Coleoptera with a small mustache and a rounded front backrest.Color may be from black to brown and dirty-gray tones, with elytra in oblique sling.
natural habitat for the species - not an option.They prefer to live next to a man in his wooden home.They settle on the floor, in the upholstery, in partitions, wooden shelves, in the legs of tables and beds in the roof and so on. D. Females home barbel able to defer more than 400 eggs deep in the crevices or cracks in wooden objects.It takes a couple of weeks, and in the light of the eggs hatch into larvae are voracious, eating initially outer layers.This testifies to the emergence of wood dust.Furniture or building in the near future, just destroyed.
Control measures
In the fight setim pest chemicals are used: CE, ME, kinmiks.They are diluted in a 10 liter bucket with water.Take 2 ml detcisa, 90 g malathion, 2 ml TBE.The resulting solution should be sprayed twice a habitat of pests.The good effect is obtained and by spraying a single solution and 2 ml TBE karate, diluted in 10 liters of water.
