Carpet anthrene
| Nom français | Anthrène des tapis |
| Nom anglais | Varied Carpet Beetle |
| Nom latin | Anthrenus verbasci |
| Classe | Insectes |
| Ordre | Coléoptères, ‘aux ailes en forme d’étui’ |
| Famille | Dermestidés |
Characteristics of the species Appearance
Carpet colourful anthrene (Anthrenus verbasci)
Adult length: 2 to 4 mm; strongly convex body; variable color: brown or black, with yellow or white spots and scales on the back; ventral surface covered with thin gray-yellow scales; antennae with 11 articles, with clubs with 3 articles at the end, clubs having practically parallel sides; at rest, the antennae are in folds of the chest; slightly rounded eyes; legs short, retracting into furrows on the ventral surface; brown larvae, carrying 3 tufts of golden hair at the end of the abdomen. Hard, tanned forewings, joining along the central line of the dorsal surface; membranous forewings, sometimes absent; grinding mouthparts; well-developed thorax; complete metamorphosis with stages in the state of egg, larva, nymph and adult.
Manners and behaviour:
Family: dermestidae (skin eaters) In houses, larvae damage carpet, wool tissues; can also damage wool clothing and other animal products. Adults often inhabit flowerbeds; can enter the house when cut flowers are brought in; outside, it feeds on nectar and pollen.
Reproduction
The female lays 30-100 eggs, which hatch after 10-18 days; the stage of the larva lasts from 60 to 325 days; adults live from 20 to 60 days.
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Hantavirus, definition and mode of transmission
Hantavirus is a severe lung syndrome caused by a virus. It is secreted in the urine, feces and saliva of infected animals. Most often these are rodents. When humans come into direct or indirect contact with these secretions, the virus is transmitted to them. Ditto when they are bitten by infected rodents.
However, the virus is not transmitted from human to human, only from animal to human. This type of disease is called zoonoses because they can only be transmitted to humans through an animal. It has been found that domestic animals (apart from the domestic rat) and livestock cannot contract hantavirus so there is every reason to believe that only rodents can carry it.
Symptoms of hantavirus
Being a lung disease, one of the characteristic symptoms of hantavirus is difficulty breathing. At the beginning of the disease, the infected person begins to feel fever, chills, headache and muscle pain.
It is about two weeks after the appearance of the first symptoms that they are usually accompanied by a feeling of shortness of breath. Nevertheless, this last manifestation of the disease can be observed after two days as after six weeks; it depends on the organism of the individual.
Hantavirus can also lead to kidney disease or infection. And although they are rare and very few people are prone to them, there is currently no treatment to combat these ailments. It is therefore better to be careful not to contract them.
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