Collins Guide to Wild Life in House and Home |
Contents
Foreword | 4 |
Where do invertebrates come from? | 10 |
Colour plates | 18 |
Copyright | |
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abdomen adult beetles animals ants attack bark become bed bugs Beech marten beetle larvae birds bite blood blowflies body booklice brown rat buildings cellars centipedes clothes moth cockroach cocoon colony common furniture beetle damage damp dried earwig emerge enter houses Ernobius mollis exit-holes faeces female lays fleas flies flour foodstuffs fully grown fungi fungus gnaw grain hairs hatch holes house longhorn house mouse housefly hoverflies human humidity indoors insecticides insects invertebrates kitchen large numbers larvae larvae live larval tunnels lay eggs legs lice lofts louse mainly material mice mites mosquito moth larvae nest normally northern Europe occur pairs particularly places plants Plate poison powder powder post beetles pupa pupal pupate roof sapwood seen serious pest silverfish skin smell sometimes species spend the winter spider beetle sting suck summer temperature textiles thrive tick trees tropical usually wall weevil wings wood dust wood wasps woodlice