Chinese name: Black fungus insect, scientific name: Alphitobius diaperinus Panzer, English name: Black fungus insect. The black fungus is a warehouse pest belonging to the class Insecta, order Coleoptera, and family Carbidae. Hosts include cotton, wood, jute, costus, rice, peanuts, sand grains, raw medicinal materials, dates, corn, cocoa beans, poria, mung beans, sesame, cardamom, ebony, white crown, and betel nut. Harmful to grains and processed products, dried fruits, cocoa, coconut, cardamom, etc. It can also eat insect corpses, insect feces and decaying inclusions, and its feeding habits are very complex. It occurs most often in dark, damp and dusty places such as wet grain, old grain, grain feet, granaries and grain processing plants. In the Northeast, it often gathers in large numbers together with black mealworms, yellow mealworms, and small fungi to cause harm. Adults or larvae often gather in dark corners of warehouses, under masonry, wooden boards, in dust and debris, or in grain debris to overwinter. Adult insects are gregarious, phototaxis, feigned death, and cannibalistic. They are good at flying and crawling, and like to eat insect corpses and debris. They can resist hunger for 11 to 24 days and like to eat moist grains. The adult lifespan can reach up to 100 years under high temperature and humidity conditions. 1 year, usually 2 to 3 months. The larvae like to eat wet grains and flour, and are prone to death, carnivorous, gregarious and phototactic. They can survive starvation for 3 to 9 days, usually 6 days.

There are reports that the beetles in these homes are not actually dirty, but they are harmful because they like to eat rotten things and carry serious bacteria. In other words, homes with disgusting bugs such as cockroaches and beetles usually have a damp, dark place where dirt often breeds (usually in the cabinet under the kitchen sink, or in the cabinet where natural gas is buried, where it is relatively humid, or It comes from bathroom floor drains and toilet drains. These places have space for them to survive - of course, they still come out to find food in leftovers).

Pay attention to hygiene, get more sun and ventilation, and keep humid areas dry and clean.

As for how to kill. .

The most environmentally friendly method: "The enemy has 30 seconds to arrive on the battlefield, crush them!"

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