let's face it bugs can be pests some
sneak into our homes some eat our homes
and some try to turn us into their home
Yanks here are 11 bugs that we think are
pests 1 fleas fleas are blood feasting
insects that like to live on
warm-blooded animals they seem to prefer
to live on humans cats dogs opossums
rats and other rodents have you ever
heard someone say my dog has fleas
they're talking about these bad buggies
inhabiting their poor pet please do not
fly instead they jump from one place to
another fleas can jump as high as 18
centimeters vertically which is 150
times their own height if we could do
this we could leap over skyscrapers
fleas are one of the best known jumpers
of animals that's impressive but I still
don't like them fleas are about two
millimeters long they're pretty tiny and
hard to spot especially among fur
they're dark reddish-brown in color and
are flat not only do these mean fleas
drink blood they can also spread disease
their saliva can cause allergic
reactions
that's why flea bites are so itchy
thanks you and your pets can avoid
becoming a flea home by using flea
treatments and baths along with
vacuuming stay away fleas to house fly
this fly is the house fly I'm sure
you've seen a house flyer - in your
house this species has always found near
humans they especially like to live on
farms they need meat garbage and feces
to procreate that's right poop I know
this sounds really weird so let me
explain the female house fly lays about
nine thousand eggs in her lifetime she
lays eggs and batches of around a
hundred at a time she lays them on
rotting meat garbage and fecal matter
that's poop within a day of laying her
eggs larvae also known as maggots hatch
from the eggs they eat the meat garbage
and feces yep it's gross after 14 to 30
6 hours of feasting the maggots go into
a cold dry place and turn into pupae
pupa is the life stage of an
sect between the immature and mature
stages in pupae the housefly is
brownish-red
in 8 millimeters long from this stage
they emerge into adult flies once they
are adult flies they do not grow so if
you ever see a small fly that means that
fly didn't get enough food as a larva in
other words they didn't eat enough
garbage there are believed to be 1
million species of flies but only a
hundred and fifty thousand have been
identified scientists have named about
85,000 of them flies most obvious
distinction from other insects is their
flight a typical fly has two flight
wings on its thorax and a pair of
halters flies also have large eyes with
excellent wide-angle vision housewives
are pretty annoying because they are
always buzzing around and trying to eat
our food they can also spread disease
too so it's important to try to keep
them out of your house good luck 3
beetle beetles are the largest group of
insects 350,000 species of beetles have
been identified which makes up about 40%
of all known insects Wow beetles do not
breathe and don't have blood
what then how do they live beetles have
air holes called spiracles in the side
of their body that lead to their trachea
which acts as lungs and instead of blood
beetles have something like blood called
hemolymph it's green some common beetles
are ground beetles leaf beetles longhorn
beetles weevils scarab beetles dung
beetles and Rove beetles so many beetles
those beetles love to eat plants and
some eat animals for people with crops
and Gardens beetles can be a nuisance
for cockroach this is the cockroach I
don't know about you but the site of
this one grosses me out
the cockroaches are an ancient group
dating back at least as far as 320
million years ago there are over 4,000
species of cockroaches and 30 of them
are associated with human habitats
cockroach has become adults in 3 to 4
months and can live up to one year
cockroaches are among the hardiest
insects
some species are capable of remaining
active for a month without food and are
able to survive unlimited resources some
can go without air for 45 minutes
cockroaches are abundant throughout the
world and live in a wide range of
environments especially in the tropics
and subtropics cockroaches can also
withstand extremely cold temperatures
allowing them to live in the Arctic
although considered gross in Western
cultures many places in the world like
Mexico and Thailand eat cockroaches in
China cockroaches are even used for
medicine 5 termite these are termites
termites like to eat wood leaf litter
soil and animal dung mmm their love for
eating wood causes a major problem for
humans because they enjoy feasting on
our wooden buildings have you ever seen
a house covered up by a big tent that's
usually an attempt to get rid of
termites termites live in colonies
colonies begin when winged termites
called elates
swarm and mate after mating they fall to
the ground and rip their wings off the
female looks for a good place to start a
colony and the male follows her most
termites nest underground their entire
lives but termites in Africa and
Australia build big mound structures
that look like little mountains some
mounds can be over 6 meters tall termite
colonies can contain several hundred
termites to several million they operate
on self-organized systems that use swarm
intelligence by working together they
can get more food and build bigger
habitats than they could on their own a
typical colony contains nymphs or
adolescent termites workers soldiers and
termite parents a king termite and
sometimes several egg-laying queens 6
locust locust is a swarming phase of
short-horned grasshoppers
what's this warming phase well normally
these grasshoppers are solitary
creatures but when their environment
becomes overcrowded they respond by
swarming in the swarming phase they
change colours eat more and breed much
more easily the pesky Esparta bouts
warming is the grasshoppers move in
large groups
of millions to billions of hoppers and
they destroy land by eating crops I mean
they destroy lots and lots of land
several groups of grasshoppers form as
locusts throughout the world except
Antarctica in North America the desert
locust swarms throughout North Africa
the Middle East in India the migratory
locusts swarms Africa Asia Australia and
New Zealand the Australian plague locust
swarms Australia North America
surprisingly doesn't have locusts in the
past it experienced a few groups of
locusts but they have all become extinct
seven fruit fly these small flies are
known as fruit flies they like to feed
on nectar and like to lay eggs on or
near decaying fruit they are pests and
seriously contaminate human food many
restaurants consider them the greatest
pest of all because they can appear out
of nowhere and breed very quickly have
you ever left a piece of fruit out on a
counter and then discovered small flies
around it that's them
female fruit flies lay their eggs on the
surface of rotting fruits and vegetables
each female may lay up to 500 eggs these
eggs hatch into larvae which molt twice
before becoming fully grown
the larvae feed on rotting fruit and
vegetables by turning their food into
semi liquid when the full-grown larvae
are ready to pupate they leave the food
for drier areas developing from larvae
to adults takes about eight to ten days
bathing takes place soon after adults
emerge usually within a few hours in
egg-laying
begins about 24 hours later so when you
see fruit flies
you got to act fast to get them out of
there eight louse lice are flightless
insects that live in hair that's right
hair that means they can live on your
head they are external parasites that
like to live on birds and mammals there
are 3000 species of lice three species
are known as human lice lice live on
their hosts by clinging to their hair
lice are very tiny on average they are
two to three millimeters about this size
of a sesame seed
they feed on skin feather parts and
blood they are usually pale and
but become darker if they are feeding on
blood a louse egg is called an it lice
use special sticky saliva to attach an
egg tightly to a hair it is very
difficult to attach an egg from hair to
remove lice eggs is called nitpicking
usually a close - that'll comb is used
humans also have special shampoo to
remove lice 9 stink bug this is a stink
bug the family name is Penta tamati in
greek penty means 5 and Thomas means
section their body looks like it has 5
sections can you see it stink bugs are
considered pests because they eat a lot
of crops grow quickly into large
populations in are resistant to many
pesticides meaning they're hard to get
rid of they are a threat to cotton corn
soybeans trees shrubs vines weeds and
many cultivated crops many stink bugs
Pierce plants and suck the juice from
the plants they can also prey on insects
smaller than them more than 4,000
species of stink bugs live throughout
the world ranging from deserts to
tropical swamps in the tropics they are
very colorful most stink bugs in North
America are pretty plain looking the
scent of stink bugs plays an important
part in mating stink bugs rely on the
scent to find one another they also
attract a partner with the use of sound
they will rub their legs together and
produce a sound similar to grasshoppers
the female stink bug shows a great deal
of care for her eggs and young often
never leaving their side until they've
matured that's pretty sweet to know but
they're still stinky pests 10 bedbugs
these are bed bugs they are called bed
bugs because they typically live in our
beds they also can be found hiding in
places where humans spend a lot of time
like hotels airplanes and couches yuck
bed bugs are small flat reddish-brown
bugs about the size of an apple seed
they are bloodsuckers and they love to
feast on human blood
yikes they prefer feasting on humans
because we don't have fur and there's
more spots for these nasty bugs to bite
us luckily they don't spray
disease but their fights often become
red itchy welts when bedbugs feed they
inject their saliva into your skin the
bedbug saliva has a special chemical
that keeps blood from clotting and also
an anesthetic that prevents you from
feeling the bite and swatting away the
bedbug these bugs like to hide in small
cracks and crevices during the day and
come out at night to feast so watch out
11 dragonfly dragonflies are flying
insects who like to eat other flying
insects specifically they like to feed
on mosquitoes bees flies ants and
butterflies they are found around lakes
ponds streams and wetlands even though
they have six legs they don't walk only
flight for these guys their larvae is
known as nymphs in our aquatic most of a
dragonflies life is spent in nymph form
depending on the dragonfly species the
larvae stage can last three months to
five years they live in the water and
eat mosquito larvae when a dragonfly is
ready to enter its adult stage the
dragonfly will climb up a reed or a
merchant plant the exposure to the air
causes the dragonfly to breathe the skin
behind the larvas head splits and out
emerges the adult dragonfly it will
spend the rest of its life flying around
and eating flying insects this stage
lasts up to six months dragonflies have
tremendous eyesight
there are large compound eyes wrap
around the top of their head and have up
to 50,000 individual lenses as a result
they have a wide field of vision and can
see almost everywhere at once I don't
know about you but I like dragonflies I
think they're really neat looking and to
see one is really special
I guess dragonflies are bigger pests to
other flying insects than to humans like
they're pests to mosquitoes and I don't
like mosquitoes they bite you can learn
more about mosquitoes from our video 11
interesting insects have you seen it you
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other videos what do you think about
these 11 pesky bugs have you seen them
crawling or flying around which one
bothers you the most
did we leave out a bug that gets on your
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