Weevils with the scientific name Curculionidae are probably the largest family among living things worldwide, with more than 60,000 species. There are around 1,000 species of weevils in Germany, all of which feed on plants. Especially the black weevil, the gray weevil…
Category: Silverfish and crawling insects
Crawling in the garden and holes in the rose petals – the alarm bells are already ringing for hobby gardeners who are more remote from nature. Don’t panic, we will tell you who is crawling and nibbling there, how you can…
Cockroaches are one thing above all else: resilient. It is not for nothing that they have earned the reputation of being able to survive a nuclear war unscathed. It is all the more difficult to fight them successfully in the household. However, it…
Carpet beetles with their brightly colored wings are pretty to look at and quite useful in the great outdoors – in the apartment or house, however, they quickly become an annoying nuisance. In doing so, they not only damage carpets and…
The wood louse likes to stay under stones, but also in fresh deciduous forests or bushes. There, cellar isopods are also enormously useful, as they eat up dead plant residues as so-called destructors. In this way, they return the nutrients that were…