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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Identification of moth in Pandemis heparana trap
While monitoring Pandemis heparana in an apple orchard in South Tyrol (middle of August), I frequently observed huge moths accumulating within the trap. The trap itself is working with pheromones for ...
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Is this a bed bug? Looks like a skeleton
Is this a bed bug? Germany, the size of specimen is 0.6 mm.
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What is this bug? (Northern Italy)
I found two of these going around my room, looks like they entered from the window. Size is about 8-10 mm. Colour a very light translucent brown.
Any ideas of what it could be and if it's dangerous? ...
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Identification of a spider — South India
I found this spider jumping around in my garden , to describe it is blue and black . I noticed that it has strong front legs and a pointed posterior , it has blue designs on a black body . I live in ...
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What are these little brown insects
We have these little insects in our house, they look brown and round to the naked eye, they seem to be somewhat attracted to light since we found a cluster of ~6 on the wall next to a light, otherwise ...
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Please help identify the species of a possible butterfly
I took picture of this weird butterfly. It landed when I was drying my clothes. But it didn't even move when I try to shake it off. After I took a lot of pictures, I tried to shake it outside.
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Can DNA barcoding be employed to determine the order of an unidentified haematophagous parasite?
Given: a specimen of an unidentified, highly adapted, haematophagous parasite, perhaps a species nova, contaminated with mammal blood and tissue.
DNA barcoding is readily used to identify cryptic ...
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What is this super-fly?
This fly repeatedly buzzed in my girlfriend’s ear. Eventually got it from it being caught in her hair. I clapped it between my hands. It fell on the floor and twitched a bit as flies sometimes do. It ...
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I saw these strange bee in my garden, and they drag little insect and/or caterpillar to their nest
I saw these strange bee in my garden, and they drag little insect and/or caterpillar to their nest. What are they?
When I catch them by gloves, their body is extremely hard. I notice since a few of my ...
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Kansas Spider Identification
I live in Kansas (Pottawatomie County), and I found a spider crawling on a wall inside my bedroom:
I'm inclined to keep the spider in my house, but I just want to double check to see if it is ...
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ID request - small green caterpillar
This was eating my mustard spinach (Brassica rapa subsp. nipposinica) plant in Washington state, USA; about 1cm in length.
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Can you please help me identifying these parasite (eggs?) on rose?
My aunt today saw the following objects on roses in her garden
and asked what it is but nobody could tell her yet, but it seems to be some kind of parasite or some caterpillar eggs.
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Is this some kind of crane fly?
I found this insect inside my house in Austria and it looked like some kind of wasp-moth to me. It is quite large with about 3 cm in lenght (excluding legs).
I looked up various images of crane flies ...
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Can you identify these tiny black insects please?
I'm afraid I don't know anything about them except that there are suddenly thousands of them invading my house since about a week ago, and I'd like to repel them. Found in Cambridge, UK.
They are ...
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What species is this larva?
I'm trying to identify the species of what I think may be some kind of Lappet Moth larva? (wild guess based on some internet sleuthing) But the markings don't really match nicely with any photos I ...
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Is there a formal name for the dissolved caterpillar substance produced during metamorphosis?
Is there a formal name for the dissolved caterpillar substance produced during metamorphosis? I've seen this described as a protein-rich soup, a horrid meltdown, larval tissue breakdown, metamorphic ...
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Can you identify this caterpillar?
Hi on my walk home in may i found this larvae crawling on a small road between grass and fields. All the yellowish larvae i know are looking totally differend than this. The origin of this picture is ...
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Which member of the Hemiptera family could this bug belong to?
Today I found this little bugger on the outside stucco near Vienna (AUT). Though I'm a big fan of bugs in general, certain members of the Pentatomidae, or their super-family the Pentatomoidea, ...
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Why is this giant water bug out of the water?
I recently took a picture of a giant water bug actually out of the water.
Every instance that I have seen these of critters they have always been in the water (sometimes even feasting on frogs), but ...
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Tiny Green beetle
I have some tiny, bright-green beetles on Granny Bonnet seed heads in Cornwall, UK. The insects have black heads and 3 black/yellow stripes across the back. They are ladybird shaped but much smaller. ...
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How could a water boatman bug get in a place with no water?
I built a pond in my backyard. Before I even topped it off, I started finding water boatman (Corixidae) swimming in there.
Note that the nearest body of water from my home is 30 miles away, and its ...
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Fairy little bug
Can someone please enlighten me what kind of a creature is this sweet little friend?
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What's this bug that is pretending to be an ant?
I found a bug with a yellow banding in the South of France. At first I thought it was an ant, and then it appeared to be a related to a cricket.
What type of bug is it?
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Where do garbage flies come from?
I want to know the origin of those very small insects/flies which we see over kitchen garbage or when some surface is wet for some time. Where do they come from? Who actually reproduce them?
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Can insects be killed by intense visible light?
Some mosquitoes and flies were sitting on the white ceiling. I took a very powerful flashlight to try and daze and then vacuum them.
When I put the flashlight's head against the ceiling (with a ...
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Help identify green insect with long antennae?
This was found in south Texas, USA.
It size was around 3 centimetres without considering the antennas or legs.
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Bug Identification - Is this a bed bug?
What kind of bug is this? Side of a penny for size. Found on basement floor in a bedroom. Pleaase tell me this isn't a bed bug
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Is it possible to put 100 live black ants and 100 live fire ants in a glass jar without them fighting each other immediately?
Background:
There is a claim falsely attributed to David Attemborough:
If you collect 100 black ants and 100 fire ants and put them in a
glass jar nothing will happen. But if you take the jar, shake ...
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What kind of bug is this on my curtain? [duplicate]
These bugs are frequently found hanging on a curtain next to my window.
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Found a bug looks like a true bug but it has a mowhak
It looks strange found it today what is it?
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larvae in my balcony
yesterday I found lots of larvae on my balcony floor. I couldn't find out where they came from. I put some in a jar to search for them and today they started turning into pupae.
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I found this bug on my washer please help identify it
The bug was a light brown
It had like 4 legs and two antennas
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Flying Insect Identification
What insect is this?
Found in the UK, approximately 10mm-15mm in length.
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Trying to identify a Spider found in rural Missouri, USA
I am trying to identify this spider found indoors in a rural area near Kansas City, Missouri. I cannot recall seeing one like it in my 14 years of living here but I have now found 3 inside in the past ...
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Is this a local insect?
The monster below got into my house today (west of Paris, France). It is about 3 cm (1.2 inches) long.
I have no idea if this is a local insect that I would then let free, or some invasive species I ...
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Asking for identification of biting insect [duplicate]
Inaturalist says it's a thrip, but my photo isn't very clear and inaturalist tries its hardest, but it can't positively identify everything, and I want to make sure it's not a flea or something else. ...
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Ticks hitching a ride on a fly?
Recently, my brother has been bothered by some particularly aggressive houseflies.
According to him, when these flies are squished, there is often a clacking noise, and then small arachnids come ...
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Is this a hornet?
I live on the 2nd floor of an old apartment building in Vancouver BC (Canada). A couple of years ago we had an issue with a hornets nest that was difficult to remove because of its location. They ...
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Tiny orange yellow bug in raspberries? What is it?
There's a tiny orange yellow bug in raspberries:
What is it? The fruit was sitting in the fridge for 3 days
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What does "Pandercetes" (genus of spiders) mean?
"Pandercetes" is a taxonomic genus, and refers to certain Huntsman spiders (found in Australia/Asia).
It was named by Koch, a German entomologist, in 1875.
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Is this a bed bug??? Small insect with tail thing found in bed [duplicate]
Couldn’t find any other ones, no bites, is very very very small like almost fruit fly size
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Identify orange-brown, teardrop-shaped insect in central Europe that was found indoors
TL;DR Can someone identify the species of the insect in below picture? Editing of the wording of this question (if possible) to make it easier to find by using search engines is welcome.
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Which fly is this?
This picture was taken in the Brazilian Amazon, upper Negro River, at daytime. The fly, about 1 cm long (maybe a little more) was flying next to us, as if to drink sweat. It finally landed on my ...
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Does one wing of fly contain harmful microbes and the other contain only antibodies? [closed]
There was this study but the conclusion and it's source's relability seemed a bit off. How come a house flies one wing contain all microbe and the other don't.
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What is this insect wing, based on its vein pattern?
I've heard that it's possible to identify insect species uniquely based only on the vein patterns of their wings. Is this true? If so, what is this?
The image is taken from an unsolved Internet ...
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Exploring speed of ants
I'm working on developing a model of ant foraging. To do this, I have simulated food morsels distributed randomly within an area, with the minimum distance between morsels being variable. I'm trying ...
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Unknown pentatomid from India
I found this bug last year in August in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, India. The scale at the bottom of the picture is in mm and the size of the bug seem to be about 1.5 cm.
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What is this tiny bug [duplicate]
I have seen these on my floor several times now that spring has arrived and temps have started to go up. It is silvery in color, appears to have a hard and segmented shell, it kind of reminds me of a ...
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Why is decomposition process much slower for poisoned insects? [closed]
I have always noticed that the pest roaches killed by roach spray start to break down much more slowly than a roach that was stomped or attack by a lizard. In those cases the roach's body attracts ...
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