Insect Determination
If you want to protect yourself respectfully from insects, you need to know which small animal you are dealing with. Because of biodiversity, this is not so easy. The INSECT RESPECT® insect fact sheets give you an overview of some insects with descriptions and prevention tips:
Click the links to open the appropriate PDFs (available in German only).
A
- Ant, brown-black carpenter
- Ant, pharaoh
- Ant (Crematogaster scutellaris)
- Ant (Lasius emarginatus)
- Ant, Hercules
- Ant, black garden
- Ant, ghost
- Ant (wood ants, mound ants, thatching ants, field ants)
- Ant (Lasius spp.)
- American cone bug
- American wasp beetle
B
- Polydesmidae
- Tree sponge beetle
- Bed bug
- Brown fur beetle
- Brown-black ross ant
- Aphids
- Bread beetle
- Book scorpion
D
E
Q
G
- Garden beetle
- Spotted fur beetle
- Furrowed ragweed
- Grain beetle
- Wavy bacon beetle
- Gold-eyed brake
- Grey field bug
H
K
L
M
- Marbled stink bug
- Brass beetle
- mites, storage-damaging
- Moth, Indianmeal
- Moth, clothing
- Moth, white-shouldered house
- Moths (Ephestia spp.)
- Moth, case-bearing clothes
P
- carpet beetle, brown
- Carpet beetle, black
- fur / carpet beetle
- Fur moth
- Pharaoh ant
- Mushroom mosquito
- Sycamore net bug
R
S
- Ground beetle (Harpalus)
- Steamfly
- Cockroach
- Parasitic wasp
- Blowfly
- Butterfly mosquito
- Black horse ant
- Black path ant
- Black head ant
- Silverfish
- Bacon beetle
- Springtails
- Dust louse
- Mosquitoes
T
V
W
There is no fact sheet about your animal yet? INSECT RESPECT® in Switzerland offers a service to be sure whether you should protect yourself from an insect and how best to do so preventively.
Currently, we can offer Swiss customers an insect determination (CHF 30.- per piece.).
If you want to have an insect determined, there are two options:
1) Submission by post (higher probability of determination)
If you are interested, put a dead but intact specimen of the insect in a small box (with a cloth or paper for gentle transport), and describe by letter these two questions: Where did you find the insects? At best: What is infested with the insects?
To the following address:
Reckhaus AG
Strahlholz 13
CH-9056 Gais
INSECT RESPECT® determines the insect species for you and sends you a fact sheet with information by e-mail.
2) Submission of a sharp photo as well as as precise description (location, etc.) by e-mail.
