Our favorite insects in midsummer

After a few dozen strokes look inside the net. All sorts of insects, captured a butterfly net, crawling, and crawling in there or trying to fly out. Dip them in the so-called "stain" - a wide-mouthed jar with a cork, throw in the same cotton wool soaked with ether, and close the tube. A few minutes later all the insects are dead. On sheets of white paper lay out your prey series of individual groups. There just are not insects will! There will be, and ants and flies, and all sorts of beetles, and grass aphids, leafhoppers, and many, herbivorous bugs, the caterpillars of butterflies. In the second half of the summer will come across various Orthoptera - grasshoppers and grasshopper. Among this production will be a lot of pests. But on the other hand, there exist and such that are their enemies and destroyers. Both it and the other only more numerous in the hottest time. Set of flies and flies winds over land, over water and over the zeros. It seems they are all filled. Of them are particularly annoying and harmful to our domestic housefly and a fly-zhpgalka. Housefly adheres to human settlements. Here, she finds much food here in the manure litter barns and stables, on the rubbish pits at any debris swarm of innumerable larvae. Everywhere, where sits a fly, it leaves traces of all sorts of microbes, which moves from garbage dumps and cesspits. This is the reason that summer, especially in villages - the time of acute gastric diseases, dysentery, abdominal tifov. At the end of summer, people noticed that the flies "are beginning to bite." People even made a sign, "Fly before death are evil." This is certainly a misunderstanding. Flies are neither evil nor good. Just at this time, in addition to room flies, there is another species - a fly-Zhygalka. It differs in that it has a sharp proboscis n pierce the skin. Zhygalka can infect people with anthrax. Who had to deal with horses in the sultry summer season, he knows what suffering is inflicted horse flies attack. Horseflies (family Tabanidae) - big flies with large wings. They lie in wait for passing on the overgrown grass meadows. With amazing perseverance persecuted they the horses, they sit on the back, neck, sweaty from running side and a special hunt for abrasions or scratches the skin. By rubbing the skin flies rescues horses blubber, the smell which repels insects. Gadfly do not bite (their mouthparts are undeveloped), their larvae are parasitic on various wild or domesticated animals.