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What is this tiny insect?
I took this picture in central Mexico. The insect is about 1mm in size. I found lots of these dead on a desk, so many that at first I thought they were just dust. I assume they came from a plant that ...
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What is this insect from India called? [duplicate]
It was found on a roof in Jaipur, Rajasthan, North-Western India.
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Cannibalizing behaviour in ants
Today I saw an ant question biology and was reminded of a picture I had clicked 2 years ago.
Here, you can see these black guys cannibalizing this other black guy.
To reiterate, these guys had ...
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What insect is this case from?
I found this insect case in my garden in the south of Melbourne (Australia), on concrete under some dried leaves of a tree that I'd cut down.
It is 8 cm long, which is pretty big for an insect! The ...
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Dragonish caterpillar from North Vietnam
I encountered this caterpillar in North Vietnam (Hanoi) and could not find any reliable web site for this kind of search. I am not an entomologist, so I don't even know how to describe it, except that ...
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Identify insect
I am from north east India and I found a really beautiful bug in my backyard.
Can someone please help me identifying it?
Size: about 3 cm long and 1.5 cm wide.
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Identification of a small to mid-sized, yellow moth species found in India at monsoon season
I am from India and it's monsoon here. What is the name of this insect?
Description:
Length: ~4cm
Width: ~2.5cm
Color: yellow, almost uniform across the wings. Slightly darker, dandelion yellow ...
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What is this stick-like creature?
My wife noticed this on her trousers immediately after coming home - probably acquired after brushing past a bush. It's about one inch long, and does not move much - but when poked it will flex and ...
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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 beetle is this?
I live in Denmark, Europe and I found this insect wandering around in my garden the other day. It's some kind of beetle, but I don't know what kind it is or the species. The beetle could also fly and ...
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Is this species a variant of a red flour beetle?
Found this little guy crawling around the back garden - South Coast of the UK.
The closest things I could find online (with an admittedly weak knowledge of where to look up these things, aside a ...
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Could someone Identify this Insect Hive on my Balcony Grill
A smallish insect hive has been forming on the grill of my balcony in the last month or two, and I wanted to know should I be worried or can I just let it be. Its 13th floor in Singapore, if the ...
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Predatory insect - what kind?
I've seen several of these insects near my house in southeast Michigan this summer, including the one seen here feeding on a green bottle fly. What are they?
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What are these shrimp-like insects in my cat's water bowl that appear overnight
Our family has 2 cats and a dog. We keep food and water bowls outside for them. We clean and refill the water bowls every day. Almost every morning, the water bowl is teeming with small aquatic ...
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Help in identifying an unknown arthropod
I'm not even sure it's an insect: the best I can do is identify it as an arthropod. I captured this slow-moving organism and after a period of observation under high magnification, I concluded that ...
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Please help to identify this insect
It is approx 1.5 inch (3 cm to 4.5 cm) long
The insect's back and wings.
Insect from its forward side
Just few hours ago (around night 10 to 10.30 pm local time), this insect entered into our home,...
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What dragonfly is this?
I photographed a dragonfly but can't really identify the species using http://www.libellen.tv/. Are there any other resources I could use?
The pictures were taken in early June, around 11:00 next to ...
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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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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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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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Insect identification - Oregon
Western Cascade forest, in a small clearing in the grasses. Possibly related to leafhoppers? Looks a little bit similar, and it was able to jump quite well. The last pair of legs are arranged the same ...
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Help identify this insect with a fan tail
I am trying to identify this creature... I took the shot in Medellín, Colombia. It is about 1cm in size.
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ID this insect please. SE Brazil Oct 2017
A number of these large flies were praying on smaller stuff / mid day / in the low altitude rainforest sections of SE Brazilian Rainforest
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Identification of this fly?
So I find these flies every year in my mulch, and I've never seen them anywhere else. The mulch becomes full of their larvae, which I feed to my toad and lizards. There are so many that you can hear ...
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Land Shrimp Sighting (Western Europe): What is it?
This approx. 6cm long insect was moving rapidly across the asphalt in a wavy/jumpy motion. It makes me think of a shrimp. It has a kind of widened head like a hammerhead shark.
I got two shots with my ...
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A strange insect
I saw this ant-like insect in Brazil, close to Rio de Janeiro. It was around 2 cm long. I tried to use google's search by image, but no luck. Does any one know the name of the species?
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And another insect from SE Brazil Oct 2017
Photographed in the low areas of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest - Oct 2017 and about 2cm in length.
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What is this giant mosquito-like insect?
I found this bug in my kitchen in this morning, in a suburb of Houston Texas, about 30 miles Northwest of downtown. It was on the wall, and when I went in for a closer look, it quickly flew away - up ...
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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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What kind of insect is this and what is it doing?
I live in Denmark and found these two insects on a tree. I'm interested in the big fly and have the following questions:
What kind of fly is it?
What is it doing with the little fly?
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What is this colourful insect?
Found this colourful insect in our garden. It measures about 1.5cm. I am from Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysiai
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What kind of bug/insect is this? photo attached
This morning (a few hours after sunrise) I saw this insect running over the blanket.
I'm thinking what it is, if it's a bed bug that missed feeding time and is out of schedule (as i thought that they ...
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What species is this golden fly?
Last summer I was visited by this unusual golden fly, whose kind I have never seen before. It was impossible to scare away so I could take relatively good pictures.
The pictures on this hobbyist page ...
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What animal/insect is this?
I saw this animal (probably insect) in my house in the Netherlands:
I have searched on the internet but was not able to find what this is, I first thought it was a kind of dragonfly, however there ...
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I found a bug on my bedroom floor. Is this a bedbug?
I found this insect on my bedroom floor. I'm worried. I hope this is not a bed bug.
Size: 3-4 mm
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Is this a crayfish hole? or wasp nest?
I'm suspicious that it might be crayfish, which I'd think was insane (I still kind of do), if I hadn't found a dead one around my house earlier this summer.
Is that definitely what it is, or do I ...
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What insect is this? (Black body two orange lines in its back and six legs)
I found this today in the library while studying. I am very curious to know whether this particular insect has a name that I can look up and find more information about:
Full length is almost one ...
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Identification: Stinging walking/flying skin cells
Here I was, sitting in the veranda, minding my own business. Kids were playing outside, and I wasn't in charge of watching them. While browsing my stack overflow feed, I felt a pinch in my left arm. ...
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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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Are these lovebugs?
I used to see these insects frequently in Chennai and Bangalore (South India). I just would like to know if this is a kind of lovebug. The lovebug as mentioned in the Wikipedia page is, however, ...
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Insect Identification - Black Cicada
I came across a black cicada in northwest Missouri last week (May 2015). I am only familiar with brown cicadas. What makes this black one different? Is it a different species, or do the brown cicadas ...
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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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Bug ID? Lower New York
Found it on the floor of my basement laundry room in a mostly wooden house in the woods in Westchester County, NY. However I had done a mountain hike (same general area) and I may have brought it from ...
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What is this tiny thing on the branch
I noticed a tiny spot with weird shape on the shoot of a plant (Variegata), and there are many others on other branches. I wonder what is it, this is a cropped picture of it, Thank you!
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What's the name of this Heteroptera bug from Toronto, Canada?
My friend already identified it as belonging to the Heteroptera order, but I was wondering if anyone knows the name of the species.
Found in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on July 21 2017, in a ...
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What is this fungus that is growing on my plant, and is it dangerous?
This fungus is growing on a plant in my front yard and I do not know if it is dangerous for my health or for the plants health. Can you please identify it? I live in Dominican Republic, a tropical ...
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What insect eggs are these?
There are only 3 eggs. A pink colour with stripes on it. Is it possible to identify the species? Found right below a window, on the wood.
I'm in Bangalore,
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What specimen of caterpillar is this?
Early this morning, I found this beautiful caterpillar specimen crawling over a leaf:
This specimen was found today morning (spring season) in Brazil at Porto Alegre City 30°01′59″S 51°13′48″W. With ...
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Can anyone identify this locust / grasshopper in Florida, USA?
Found in Pinellas County, Florida
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