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What is this insect found in an apartment in Brazil?
I found some insects after moving into a new apartment in south eastern Brazil, in an urban center. It is the 11th floor (relatively high up) but very windy region.
Some loose wings can be found ...
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What insect is this? There are a lot of them in my apartment, but they don't seem to be either cockroaches or spiders
I keep finding these things in my New York City apartment, and I am very curious what species they are. I thought they were cockroaches at first, but couldn't find any pictures online that would ...
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Need help with beetle identification and yellow stuff I am seeing
This beetle infested a kitchen in northeast USA.
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What may these eggs belong to?
Today I've found these eggs on the outside of my house.
This is located on the north of Spain.
Do anyone knows what it belongs to?
I'm leaning towards something related to the Reduviidae family?
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What are the three dots (eyes?) on the top of this wasp's head? What species might it be?
I photographed these (unidentified) wasps on a sunny but cool winter day in northern Taiwan because they were conspicuously hanging out on a hand railing and had much lighter coloring than I'd ever ...
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I have brown tiny bugs all over the house
These bugs are crawling all around in my house, firstly they suddenly appeared in the kitchen after the 2-3 days of continuous rain. but then it started to move on sofa, bed, all on clothes, they move ...
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Is this a harmful insect?
I found this insect crawling on my neck while standing under a tree. I am wondering if it's a harmful (to humans) insect. I live in Prague. It is small (not even a centi-meter I think).
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ID: Ant or ant-like insect in North Central FL (velvet ant?)
I heard my cats messing with something in my apartment, and when I went to check on them, I found them playing with this insect:
It's roughly a centimeter long. I am located in North Central Florida. ...
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Spider identification?
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Can someone help me identify this spider? I've never seen one like this. I have brown widows and brown recluses in my yard, along with different types of orb weavers, but ...
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What is this insect (or spider)?
Location: Vienna, Austria
Date: July 18th
Daytime: around 5pm
Begaviours: none, unfortunately. Just walking
I take these to be six legs and some kind of appendices. But I am not entirely sure.
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What is this insect (possibly a cockroach)?
I'm looking to identify this insect, found inside a (basement) bathroom by the sink. Wondering if it's perhaps an oriental cockroach / water bug, but the images don't look quite the same, and the bug ...
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Wood-eating bug in Germany
This bug was found in an old church in Southern Germany. Apparently it was damaging/eating wood. A local woodworker could not identify the bug and speculated that it was some foreign species.
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Insect identification request : is it any species from muscidae family or some another?
I belong to Haryana , India
Sudden I found this type of insect in my classroom
and it stung me suddenly because ,I felt itching in my hand for about 15 mins , so please tell me, is it poisonous or not ...
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Species Identification - Blue multi-segment arthropod
This bug has a blue body, more than 8 legs, an orange head, and on its behind it has two stripes that are sometimes found on centipedes. Sorta hard to remember size, but I estimate about half the size ...
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Egg sack identification
Can anyone identify this egg sack? It is on the underside of my organic poblano pepper leaf. No infestations, no bugs around that I can see. In case the picture is not clear, it has a smooth surface, ...
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What insect is this in photo? 1.5" size
What insect is this in photo? Saw this in outdoor table and wonder if it can bite and if it has venom. The size is about 1.5 inches and located in the Philippines.
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What is this bug on wood and paper?
I live in a Mediterranean climate and I often find these bugs in wooden furniture and sometimes around books. I would like to find the name and a solution to exterminate them.
The bug is black looks ...
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What kind of very tiny bugs are these? Please help to identify! [duplicate]
The are very very tiny, finding number of them in my bathroom and bedroom, Difficult to see on non- white surface. Difficult to click pictures, This is best I can come up with.
Location - MD, USA
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Camera-shy black and green damselfly in Taiwan - species identification?
These photos are from April 7 and 21, 2024 in northern Taiwan, taken in dark, moist forest locations about 10 meters apart, of a damselfly species I've never seen before, here or anywhere else. I ...
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Bug identification: Looks similar to a tiny silverfish
Found in NY outside on mailbox in a group of about 1000, it is about 1/8" long (not counting legs), with dozens of very hair-like legs. The front (?) of the bug appears to have larger leg/...
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Help identify black, brown bugs in Virginia
Please help identify these black, brown bugs found in the bathroom in a home in Virginia. The bathroom has mold due to a pipe that was leaking.
They are very small and maybe 1 mm in length. The ...
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Insect Identification Request -- brown and white flea-like bug
So for context, this is a bug I found on the leaf of one of my young ginger plants, which I found a few days after watering. I have a few other tropical plants next to it, like a vanilla bean orchid --...
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Very small, light and dark "insects" - Italy - Infestation, healthy problems? - Insect identification [duplicate]
I'm currently in a town near Savona, on the coast in north-west Italy.
We had a problem with pigeons, that create their nests in the space between the roof and the ceiling.
Now, from the tube of the ...
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Why is this small fly trying to live in my speakers?
While having the window open today, I discovered a small insect repeatedly flying into my room. It had seemingly discovered that a small hole for the power LED to shine through was the perfect size ...
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Spider ID: What is this?
This crawled on my husband. It didn’t bite him, he was able to swat it away so that’s why it looks a little messed up. I honestly just want to know if this is poisonous. We live in AZ, Goodyear area ...
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What kind of insect appears in this photo?
For months my wife has been commenting about a white substance spontaneously appearing on black clothes. Under magnification, the substance appears to possibly be eggs. As you can see, the image shows ...
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Can anyone identify this bug please [duplicate]
We had just gotten a new kitten from a not great home. It was her second night here, and she was laying on my chest when I noticed that where she had been lying on me was really really itchy. When I ...
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What kind of hornet is this?
I live in France, in western suburbs of Paris. For a few days I have seen two of the insects below in my apartment. It is slightly smaller than a thumb, say 4cm (1.58") (sorry for not putting a ...
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What kind of moth is this? Why does it have a stinger?
Unfortunately, the moth died before I could photograph it.
The body length is approximately 2-3Inches. It was much bigger than the moths I usually see. And this is the first moth that I have seen ...
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I have a fruit fly problem
I've add fruit flies raising a garden every year I am very familiar with them and how to kill them. But twice now I have killed one by smashing it and upon doing so two little tiny bugs or crawling on ...
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Tiny insect identification in potted plants
Unfortunately, the new potted soil I've bought seems to be heavily infested with insects. Firstly, I have had a fight with fungus gnats. After using parasitic nematodes about 10 days ago, I no longer ...
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What kind of insect is this? It looks like a huge spider with one long antenna and six legs
It looks like a huge spider but with six legs and has one very long antenna. It also looks like it has claws. Please I would like to know what sort of insect it is. So I would know measures to take if ...
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Living in Singapore, what’s this bug? Found an identical one in my house on the floor
Hi! I’m living in Singapore (Southeast Asia). Found a small brown bug with a prominent dark stripe on its back like the pictured one, about the size of half a grain of rice. It was wandering around on ...
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Is this bug a termite?
Noticed this bug on my kitchen floor, and am wondering whether it is a termite:
I have a video of it crawling too, but don't see how to upload video here.
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Regarding scale: it is small, perhaps ...
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I’ve been searching the internet for days and I can’t seem to find out what insect this is, can anyone help?
I saw this tiny insect and I first thought it was an ant because of the body shape. However its legs were really really green, I’m adding photos but it’s hard to see how green they actually were. It ...
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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 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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Were these spiders burried alive by a spider wasp?
I moved a stone plate in the garden in europe, that was stored vertically, leaning against another one.
In the space between the two, I found some soil with small cavities filled with spiders.
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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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Help identifying insect
I live in Milan, Italy in the city center.
I started seeing this insect in August after a long vacation. In this periods the temperature inside the house went up to 36°C (temperatures here range from -...
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Trying to identify a beetle seen in Ontario, Canada...and its babies, or parasites?
I'm trying to identify a beetle I took video of in July (around 2010) in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada. Attached below is a still frame.
I've done some googling and was thinking this was a ...
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Need help identifying insects in home, Morgan Hill CA
The creature in the attached photos just started appearing in small numbers in various locations inside my home. Would like to positively identify.
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Identification of black-and-white striped jumping insect?
I noticed this small insect with long striped antennae and legs hanging out on my parsley. I'd be curious to find out what it is.
When I got close to take a picture of it, it suddenly leapt, like a ...
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What bug could this be?
I found a bunch of bugs, approximately 2-3mm in my kitchen, most of them dead and with a throughout search i found a bunch of them living in my gluten-free flour and on some other products like fried ...
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Does anybody know what kind of creepy-crawly this is?
My son found this caterpillar in our garden in the UK. Have asked multiple people with more knowledge in this area who have been unable to identify it. looking for any help?
Having looked online the ...
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What species is this insect?
I would be grateful for help identifying the insect depicted in the attached picture. It was found inside a residential building (ground floor) at the periphery of Valladolid, a city in Yucatán, ...
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Identify a spider which is consuming a fly
can you please identify this spider which was found on indoor banana plant eating(?) a fly?
Located in central europe - Czech Republic, Moravia region. Photo taken in April 23rd. Banana plant is ...
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Identifying a bug
I found this bug ( vary in size )after deep cleaning to my bedroom today exactly in my bed sheets and window sill and my desk , can someone help me identify them
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Species Identification: Waterborne worm/larva, California, USA (and is it safe)
Can you help ID this species? The photos are low quality, so I'll do my best to describe them.
I found them after I left a cup of dechlorinated, freshwater aquarium water outside with a plant in it, ...
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Identify this insect in Texas
Please help identify the insect in the attached picture. It was found in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas, today, April 18 2023. It is about 0.25 inches long.
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