Insects and more

Insect breeding

Insect breeding is an essential part of our BioGenius family. When breeding various species, we always ensure the highest quality and an up-to-date and modern stock. Our insect breeding is integrated into biological product testing and thus provides the basis for carrying out efficacy tests.

Based on the damage caused, we categorise our insects into four groups:

Hygiene Pests

Hygienic pests (also health pests) are divided into temporarily sucking insects such as mosquitoes, flies, horseflies, etc. and ectoparasites such as lice, fleas and bed bugs. They are capable of transmitting pathogens through bites or stings or can trigger allergies through food contamination via excretions.

Further hygiene pests are Ectoparasites, like lice, fleas or ticks. They arespecies that feed on skin substances, blood or tissue fluid and can thus be carriers of dangerous diseases.

Material Pests

Material pests are primarily insects and/or their larvae that can damage materials of animal and plant origin. They infest products such as furs, carpets, wool, books, etc.. Even in small numbers of individuals, they can cause considerable and above all economic damage.

Stored Product Pests

Storage pests are animal species that infest food, luxury food or animal feed during storage or transport. They play a major role, for example, in food storage and in food processing plants. They not only cause considerable feeding damage, but they can also reduce the quality of food, luxury food and animal feed and make it unusable for human and animal consumption.

Nuisance Arthropods

Nuisance insects do not cause any direct damage but are often perceived as a nuisance or annoyance simply by their presence. They can affect human well-being as well as arouse disgust when they appear en masse.


Our insects at a glance

BioGenius' in-house insect and arthropod breeding ensurethe highest quality standards for testing your biocidal products.
The following insect species are bred directly at BioGenius or can be obtained from network partners.

Crawling insects

Cockroaches

Blattodea

German cockroach

Blattella germanica

Oriental cockroach

Blatta orientalis

American cockroach

Periplaneta americana

Bugs

Heteroptera

Bed bug

Cimex lectularius

Resistant Bed bug

Cimex lectularius (resistant)

Fleas

Siphonaptera

Cat flea

Ctenocephalides felis

Ants

Hymenoptera

Black garden ant

Lasius niger

Arachnids

Arachnida

House dust mite

Dermatophagoides farinae

House dust mite

Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus

European sheep tick

Ixodes ricinus

Brown dog tick

Rhipicephalus sanguineus

Red poultry mite

Dermanyssus gallinae

Garden spider

Araneus diadematus

Daddy long leg spider

Pholcus spp.

Beetles

Coleoptera

Carpet beetle

Anthrenus flavipes

Flour beetle

Tribolium spp.

Yellow mealworm

Tenebrio molitor

Grain weevil

Sitophilus granarius

Lesser mealworm

Alphitobius spp.

Woodlouse

Porcellionidae

Woodlouse

Porcellio scaber

Earwigs

Forficulidae

European earwig

Forficula auricularia

Zygentoma

Zygentoma

Firebrats (Ovenfish)

Thermobia domestica

Long-tailed silverfish

Ctenolepisma longicaudatum

Silverfish

Lepisma saccharina

Flying insects

Flies

Diptera

House fly

Musca domestica

Stable fly

Stomoxys calcitrans

Fruit fly

Drosophila melanogaster

Yellow fever mosquito

Aedes aegypti

Malaria mosquito

Anopheles gambiae

House mosquito

Culex quinquefasciatus

Asian tiger mosquito

Aedes albopictus

Moth

Tineidae

Clothes moth

Tineola bisselliella

Indian meal moth

Plodia interpunctella

Mediterranean flour moth

Ephestia kuehniella

Wasps

Vespidae

Wasp

Vespula spp.

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Dr. Catherine Linn

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT BIOLOGY

Fon +49 (0) 2204 83077-17
Mobil +49 (0) 160 534 67 85

catherine.linn@biogenius.de

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