Questions tagged [entomology]
The scientific study of Insects. If the question is about some other group of arthropod use 'arthropod' tag.
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What is the area around a plant that is under its phytochemicals/secondary metabolites influence?
Is there a dilution threshold as a function of distance or some general measure regarding the area around a plant that is under the influence of its phytochemicals?
I'm looking for a objective value ...
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What kind of spider is it and was this web built beforehand? (Surprise find)
I am surprise to find an insect caught at the end of what seems to be very long nearly invisible thread/web, most importantly where the insect is caught is actually a passage way where we enter the ...
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How do bees and wasps react to carnivorous plants?
I seem to recall that bees and wasps have alert pheromones, so that if a few of them are killed or attacked in the proximity of others, they will attract backup.
I assume it's pretty straightforward ...
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Butterfly Raises Abdomen Like A Scorpion
Since a few weeks I am observing a little butterfly in my living room and normally I put insects out but it's cold outdoors and I thought it's secure inside. It occassionally flies around, especially ...
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What is this large insect?
A large (body about 4 cm long) flying insect flew into my workshed when it was very dark, warm and humid outside, probably attracted by the lights. It fell onto the bench upside down and could not ...
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What Type of Color Vision do Mantises have?
I am trying to figure out what type of color vision mantises have, but stuff about mantis shrimp keeps coming up instead. All I was able to find was this one paper from 1971. It found evidence that ...
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They look like tiny black ants but they're not I find them only in my son's toy box [duplicate]
I find these only in my son's toy box not in the kitchen or not around food I have bleached all my son's toys and they still come back they are not crawling along the wall or anywhere else in the room ...
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Identification of a Tettigonia specimen
At least I think it is a Tettigonia sp. but I have problems identifying it exactly because it is still a nymph. OK, it is a female, that is hard to overlook, but is it T. cantans (my guess) or T. ...
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What kind of bug is this? I’m not sure if it’s a cockroach
Found this bug in my home. Is this a roach?
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Black flying bug infestation
What is this black bug in my house. There is literally an infestation. They are everywhere. The size of a small tick. They fly and just keep coming. Im from pakistan, lahore.
I've never seen these ...
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What type of bug is this? Found under a blanket [duplicate]
I'm a bit worried as we found a few of these bugs under a blanket in a spare bedroom. It was very small (3-3.5 mm) and rust/brown in color with a tubular/long shape. There seemed to be a nymph next to ...
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database of Animals/insects which would contain their queriable geographic location?
Is there a database of Animals/insects which would contain their queriable geographic location?
I would need to perform a rather simple query, such as ...
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How well do ants and other insects smell odors other than pheromones, or are they highly tuned to pheromones only?
I have a vague understanding that ants and moths use pheromones in a variety of ways, but recently after a heavy rain my office is being explored by a some small ants looking for food. They decided it ...
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Identification of butterfly from caterpillar
i visited a butterfly house and they didn't know which butterfly will be the caterpillars in the picture, my first guess is 'papilio aegeus'. I think the eggs/ caterpillars were on a 'paulownia ...
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What kind of bug is this? Small, slower than an ant, black head, red body
It is very small but it is slower than an ant. It has a black head and six legs with a red body. I’m in North Carolina.
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What is this bee-like insect flying above the swallow in Singapore?
Photo was taken within the past week in the Singapore Botanical Garden. The bird is the Pacific swallow Hirundo tahitica, but there is also an unidentified insect flying above the bird, which is ...
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What is the ball of jelly on the left eye of this mantis?
This mantis was seen in the wild in north Israel.
It would be great if the Mantis species can be identified too.
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What bug is this in my closet [duplicate]
I keep finding these little insects on my clothes in the one corner of my closet. They seem to be a mm in length. I’ve never seen them walk and I’ve only seen one in any given time. I’ve never seen ...
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What are these stinkbug-like insects?
Lots of these insects appeared on a wall in my garden for about a week. I've never seen these before, and they behave like ants. They look like stink bugs and are 2-3mm long.
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What do Wild Silverfish Eat?
Silverfish are famous for eating wallpaper paste.
The paste is made of starch mixed with water. Wikipedia says silverfish love starch
They consume matter that contains polysaccharides, such as ...
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Common House Spider got shrunked and appeared lifeless when touched by water
I was trying to save a house spider which was on my water tub, it was desperately trying to move out of the tub but due to the smooth surface couldnt manage, the tub was wet but not filled with water ...
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What animal is this from the kitchen
The following picture has been taken in August inside a box
I’m the kitchen in a city at the center of France. What animal is this? The real size is about the size of a grain of rice
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Fly identification (Michigan)
Recently we've seen lots of this small fly in our house in Michigan. They are smaller than regular houseflies and don't have the distinctive green/blue sheen that houseflies have. I assume they bite, ...
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Identification of insect casing
Photo of specimen with a US quarter (~24 mm diameter) for size reference. Please help identify what left behind this casing. It was found in middle of the yard, approximately 25 feet from nearest tree ...
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Marine invertebrate San Juan Islands, WA, USA
I noticed a green-colored marine arthropod in harbor in the US San Juan Islands (early July 2022, around noon), specifically Haro Strait, and took several pictures from the dock.
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What insect is this? Found in a dying tree
I recently found this insect near where I live, where my childs play always! Is it dangerous ??. What insect is this ?
Is it poisonous?
Its about 3cm
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I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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The pollination of lupins
Do lupins produce nectar? According to this study it seems like there are conflicting conclusions regarding this. And in this study the supposed inability for Lupinus argenteus to produce nectar is ...
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What is this unusual butterfly?
Sighted in West London, July 23rd., 2022. The weather was cool and overcast. I could only get a picture of the underwing, but the upper wing was orange towards the head, and white towards the tail, ...
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Colorado insect identification
Found this bug in my backyard, but was unable to identify it. Thanks for any hint!
Edit : I live in the south east suburbs of Denver, Centennial.
So this is quite an urban area. I found this bug on my ...
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Identifying a Texan horned butterfly
I found this butterfly on some late-season bluebonnets in Fort Worth, Texas, this evening. You can get some sense of scale if you know how big bluebonnets are; the body is probably about the size of ...
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Is this insect a bedbug? [duplicate]
I just found this bug on our bed. So even though it is literally a bedbug… is it actually a bedbug? We have never had an issue before and no signs of bites. But finding this worries me now…
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Can you identify this mosquitoe-like bug?
I'm wondering what is this bug, I have never seen it before and its behaviour is just weird for me, they just try to climb to the top of the window, then fall and start over again, I see no hole they ...
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How to prepare ethanol-preserved insects for imaging using SEM
I have aquatic insect larvae (soft-bodied) currently preserved in 70% ethanol. I would like to image these using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). I am wondering whether I need to/can start at ...
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What types of spider and caterpillar are these, and what are they doing?
What varieties of spider / caterpillar(?) are these?
And what is the spider doing to the caterpillar?
This is in Texas.
This went on for hours, with the spider dancing with the caterpillar in the ...
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Would the environmental pressures imposed by humans make the housefly of today significantly harder to swat than their ancestors of 1000 years ago?
For context, I am primarily referring to Musca domestica.
Recently the thought occurred to me that due to short life cycle of the common housefly, and due to the fact that such flies have interacted ...
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Bug Identification North Carolina Help
I found this bug up in North Carolina and it freaked me out because I found it inside. Would anyone be familiar with this type of bug?
I apologize for the bad angle, it is not a bee at all, but had a ...
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What are these most tiny bugs called
These bugs are the smallest bugs I've ever seen in my life and they are very annoying, throughout the day, I just feel sudden scratches on my body and when I look closely, the cause are these bugs ...
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What is this colorful bug from Germany?
a friend found this little fella just outside of Berlin and managed to snap a blurry picture.
This boy or girl is probably the size of a finger nail and features fly like skin wings with no hard ...
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What is this insect found in Melbourne, Australia?
This photo was taken a few days ago (late May 2022, during daylight hours) on a timber deck in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The animal is roughly 3cm long. The photograph shows shed ...
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Do cochineals ("scale bugs") form aluminium complexes themselves? Where do they get such large quantities so quickly and how do they handle it safely?
Wikipedia's Carmine begins:
Carmine (/ˈkɑːrmən, ˈkɑːrmaɪn/) – also called cochineal (for the insect from which it is extracted), cochineal extract, crimson lake, or carmine lake – is a pigment of a ...
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What is this spider? Found in garage during May in NY
Stands very flat with its legs very outstretched, doubles-up its front legs (first pic looks like it only has 6 legs). Brownish-dark gray, not quite black. It's alive, but it wasn't particular active ...
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Are these little white fuzzy insects "scale"? What species and what is their lifecycle like?
These appeared on three small, similar houseplants I bought about a month earlier at a nursery. There were dozens. I physically removed a few and just pruned stems that had many, and put the clippings ...
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Is this an instar of the red fire bug?
While inspecting some yarrow that seemed to be having problems, I found a few of these bugs. I think they may be an instar of red firebug, but the photos of the nymphs that I found had only one row of ...
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Do *Ambystoma macrodactylum* predate on *ceuthophilinaens* like the one I observed?
I observed this Ambystoma macrodactylum within half of a meter of this Ceuthophilinaen under an old board. I can imagine salamanders eating cricket-like things, but this question is far outside my ...
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What is the name/type/species of this insect?
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Found in a bathtub in western Washington (state) (the pacific northwest).
3/16-1/4" long, 1/8-3/16 thick.
Gray colored.
No elongated noise but two antennas.
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Is this bark beetle going to be a problem?
This little (around 3mm in length) beetle is one of many that infested a gingerbread heart in our house. It seems to be some kind of bark beetle. My question is what exact species it is likely to be ...
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ant ID montreal, qc canada
I'd like to know what type of ants this is. These appeared in my basement recently.
I am thinking those are called "pavement ants" after comparing online. Please help me identify them.
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Is it possible to identify a worm being carried by a depicted wasp?
Wikimedia has a picture of a Ancistrocerus trifasciatus / mason wasp carrying a kind of worm:
Is it possible to tell what exactly kind of worm it is, based only on the above image, number of worm's ...
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Is there a specific name for the feet of insects?
A friend and I were talking, and he asked me whether there was a name for insect feet (either in general or for specific insects). I think they are sometimes called tarsi, but I believe that's a more ...
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