Stored food and Wood Destroying Insects

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  • Cockroach management (NEED TO FINISH)

    • Monitor

    • Sanitation

    • Check what comes into home

    • Correct moisture problems

    • Exclusion around pipes and plumbing, electrical and IT conduits, subfloor utility pathways, build

    • Take it outside

  • Nuisance and filth flies (NEED TO FINISH)

    • house

    • blow

    • flesh

    • fruit/vinegar

  • House, blow and flesh flies are attracted to shit

  • Vinegar Fliess

    • Tiny yellow/brown, heavy body

    • Usually in kitchen, bathroom

    • Slow fliers, males have red eyes

    • Usually live one week

  • Larvae are dirty white, head pointed

    • Require fermenting, organic debris

    • Require 5-14 days to grow

  • Phorid/Scuttle Flies

    • Usually in kitchen, bathroom, but everywhere

    • Tiny brown to black, hump-back

    • Prefer to scoot or scuttle around, will fly in rapid motion

    • Larvae are dirty white, typical maggots

    • Eat almost any decaying organic matter

    • Require 14-37 days to complete cycle

    • Infest bodies in coffin in fancy graveyard thing

    • Infest buried bodies

  • Drain/Moth flies

    • small, white to black, hairy wings and body

    • Any room where there is a drain

    • often dance on surfaces or just sit unless disturbed

    • usually live 1 week

    • Larvae dirty white, elongate, black head

    • Eat bacterial and algal scum in drains

    • May take 2-4 weeks to mature

    • Need biological cleaner

  • Cluster Flies

    • Medium sized fly, slightly larger than house fly, body covered with golden hairs, folds wings flat over abdomen

    • Creep about and fly slowly

    • often found on flowers in summer and fall

    • household invader in fall

    • larvae, typical maggots

    • parasites of earthworms

    • may take 2-4 weeks to mature

  • Fungus gnats

    • Tiny fragile black flies

    • Usally in kitchen and bathroom

    • Slow fliers

    • live 2-3 weeks

    • Laevae are white with a black head

    • Live in wet, rotting organic debris

    • require 5-14 days to develop

    • look for moisture source- A/C, drains, refrigerator, pans, etc

    • Let soil dry out to kill them

    Wood Destorying Insects

  • Common wood destorying insects

    • Termites

    • Carpenter Ants

    • Powderpost Beetles

    • Longhorn beetles

    • Flatheaded borers

    • wood-boring weevils

  • Know the characteristic of the termites vs ants

  • Carpenter ants build and canā€™t digest wood

  • Termites eat the wood

  • Isoptera

    • Soical insects

    • winged reproductioves with both wings same sized and membranous

    • striatght or curved antennas consists of beadlike segments

    • abdomen broadly joined the thorax

    • no cerci

    • chewing mouth parts

    • Termites donā€™t have enzyme to digest plants

      • protozoan lives in gut and digest cellulose

  • Types of Termites

    • Subterranean - most common

    • Drywood - mainly southern and western

    • Dampwood - mainly southern

    • In ohio we have eastern sub termits and carpterner ant