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Bee identification
Can anyone help identify this UK bee? The picture was taken in June 2016.
Doesn't have to be exact, really just want to know if it's a honey bee or a solitary bee.
Thanks.
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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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Identification of UK insect
We found this in our UK garden! Any ideas? Not sure if it had/has wings.
It has a segmented tail and 6 legs. It’s about 2 inches/ 8cm long.
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What is this stinging/biting insect?
The missus was bitten/stung in the palm by this (we think) in NE Scotland this morning. Pain was immediate, described as like getting a pin stuck in her hand. Apparently her first attempt to flick it ...
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Species Identification - small insect
I found a few of these walking in the middle of the night (about 3 AM) on a wall in my room near the floor. They are at most a few millimetres long (no more than 2 I would say). I am living in Poland, ...
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Identify this large (swamp) fly?
Can anyone identify this large fly?
I encountered it in Okefenokee Swamp (Georgia, U.S.A.) on May 1, 2015.
Weather: 53-78°F (avg. 66°F), avg humidity = 60, dew point = 47°F.
The fly was about the ...
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What are these tiny dark red insects?
I found these creatures stuck to a leaf on my tomato plant in the greenhouse/glasshouse, in early June, in south Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom.
They are each about 1-2mm in size. They didn't move ...
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What is this beetle?
During a pit stop on the road from North Carolina to New York (somewhere in Delaware) I found the following (dead) insect in the car park:
As you can see from the quarter next to it (25 mm diameter) ...
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What is the name if this glittery fly seen in Pittsburgh?
I have photographed the following fly which is iridescent green in Pittsburgh, PA.
I guess it was about 0.5-1.5cm long.
Can you help me to identify it?
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Species identification; clusters of big plump red bugs in Taipei
I saw these red insects in Taipei near XinBeitou MRT station in the last week of April 2017, around lunch time. They were fairly active and would keep checking each other out with their antennae for a ...
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Species ID from Hungary
I found it on the wall, it was calm for 15 minutes. Central Europe, Hungary. Never seen anything like this. I have two more pictures.
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Identification of a caterpillar
My daughter has become one with nature somehow and came across an odd looking caterpillar. The odds of finding one never found before is great, however I'm unable to find what kind it is. It's head ...
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Large black caterpillar, cocoon, moth - Los Angeles
This is my first visit here, probably the first of many, since I have many species to identify!
The first is a regular resident of my back yard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Mt. Washington. It's ...
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Identification of an Insect (Hemiptera)
I found a a few of these guys on my composter, so they could have easily been eating bugs or decaying organics (or both):
To me it looks like a stink bug with oversized legs, not like the ones I'm ...
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What is this large long-legged orange and black insect?
Around and inch long. 6 legs, bigger than a wasp, and orange and black. Found near the coast in the woods in South Carolina.
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Large nocturnal butterfly with red and black hindwings
Location:
Central Poland, urban environment.
Size:
Around 4 centimeters long.
Time:
Early July.
Images:
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What sort of seed pod is this?
My son found this floating in a stream in Massachusetts, in the northeastern US. It was intact when he found it, but he cracked it open to see what was inside. I did some Google image searching, but ...
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What is this flying insect?
This insect was captured in Australia near Canberra. It has a very hard exoskeleton and is over an inch long. It seems to have 6 wings - 2 large pairs and one very small pair. I did not see a stinger -...
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What is this thing? It is hairy mostly a cocoon, and i saw a white worm pop out of it. It is spreading rapidly
I suspect it is originating from the mud. This has some plastic bits with it. They are spreading all over my walls. I think it is some kind of cocoon for worm. Should it's rapid growth in terms of ...
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Can you identify this red insect?
Location: Lansdowne, Uttarakhand, India
Date: 27 May 2017
Time: 5.33 pm
The insect was found walking upwards on a plastic table. It was about 3-4cm long, as far as I remember; its been a long time ...
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What is the name of this fly?
I've seen the following insect in Austria at the border to Bavaria (high resolution). It was quite small. I would guess not longer than 1cm:
Could somebody identify it?
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Species Identification: Beetle having trunk!
Today morning I found this beetle in Cynodon dactylon grass. It had this beautiful head bearing a trunk like structure. I'm wondering what beetle it is
Images:
Approximate size: 1.75 cm
Temperature:...
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What is this hummingbird-like insect? [duplicate]
I just saw this insect collecting polen from bougainvillea blossoms on the Greek island of Skyros, in the Aegean sea. For future reference, this is in the middle of August and the sighting was at ...
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Species Identification: large shiny black beetle, Detroit USA
What sort of beetle is this? I live in a suburb of Detroit and found a whole bunch of these living under my lawn when I was replacing a section of it. I'm assuming these are also the source of the ...
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Can anyone identify these moths?
Here are two lepidopterans I collected in Oregon (USA). The wingspan of the bigger one (on the left) is ~4 cm. I spent a lot of time browsing this website hoping to find a match, but I didn't have ...
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What is this yellow sticky excretion from a moth? Details in photos
Saw this moth on some grass the other day and took some bad phone photos. I'd like to know what the yellow excretion is. I believe it is an excretion from the moth (as opposed to for example, some ...
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Caterpillar on milkweed not monarch
Southern California, US and less than 1cm
Please help identify this caterpillar.
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What species is this burrow-digging insect?
These are frames from a recent recording:
Location
Urban area in Central Europe.
Abiotic factors at the time of recording
Temperature = 27°
Humidity = 51%
Wind = 16 km/h
Description
Approximate ...
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Help me identify species of fruit fly?
I found this fruit fly in Pune/India. It was about 1 cm in size. I explored info on several species in same region, but they were different in appearance, especially that black spot in middle of body.
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What is this worm or larva I found in my walls
We were recently doing some major remodeling in our 1920s era home and found what looks like a nest of small meal worms. I am wondering if anybody can identify them! Here are some photos:
Our home is ...
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Moth that resembles a leaf. What species is this?
Location: Urban area near the Western Ghats, Kerala, South India
Date: Sometime in September, 2016
Climatic Conditions: Humid, frequent rains.
Brief description:
Head isn't prominent from the ...
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Possible moth identification
There's a flying insect being caught indoors today in Sydney Australia. Before it is being caught, it basically flies like a moth. However googling of Tinea pellionella and other cloth moths does not ...
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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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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.
It looks a bit like Halyomorpha ...
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Insect ID, Ecuador
Picture was taken in the Ecuadorian Amazon in January 2019, during the day, elevation about 300 meters. The size was not recorded but might be no bigger than a housefly judging from the photo. It ...
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Identification of Jumping Spider Species
I found this jumping spider (Salticidae family) in Pune/India. Most common species of jumpers in my region is heavy-bodied jumper (Hyllus semicupreus), but this is different species by observing body ...
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What species of wasp is this? And how to get rid of them?
Yesterday while moving a chair in my garden I got stung by a group of wasps. During the night I went hunting for their nests and managed to neutralize 3 of them: one was in the chair's legs, about the ...
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What kind of red and black insect is in the photo?
I was wondering what kind of insect this was that I found on a flower on my deck this morning?
The insect was in my flower pot on my deck. I took the picture from my cell phone and zoomed in for a ...
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What is the scientific name of this flying insect?
It looks like some relative of dragon fly.
To give an idea about its size I picked it by its wings
It had quite a flexible abdomen
I set it free after clicking the pics. I live in central India (...
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Identification of brown butterfly with orange/black/white spots
These brown butterflies are very frequent at my place now. Two or three can be found quietly sitting with their wings folded everyday, at different locations. It's a transition period between Autumn ...
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Identification of an insect from midwest US
I have been seeing them more and more frequently indoors. I am currently in the Midwest United States, weather has been unusually warm for December, and there are many trees nearby. Can someone ...
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What is this bug
This insect flew into my house in Singapore while it was raining. Size is around 1.5 inches. What is this?
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What insect is this?
I found it in Russia.
Where do they usually live? What do they eat?
Full length is approximately 2 cm.
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Identify this large, beige or pine cone-colored squareish beetle and/or the pine cone it's on?
I saw this large beige beetle on a large pine cone on the ground in February in Hsinchu county Taiwan.
It was about 4 cm long and 2 cm wide and the color was similar to the pine cone it was standing ...
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Caterpillar resembling a snake
I found a very interesting caterpillar. It's 5 cm long and looks like a snake. I discoved it in a greenhouse on a vine in the Czech Republic.
I found two types: a green one and a brown one, both ...
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What is this insect?
These photographs were taken today in Marseille, in the Mediterranean coast of France. My French friends inform me that these beasties are called cousins because they are "cousins" of mosquitoes (...
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What is the name of this red and blue striped spider (?) - Brazil, Rio de Janeiro
Anyone knows the name of this thing? I found it in our bathroom. It is maybe 10-15 mm.
It looks like a spider but the colors left me puzzled
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Approx 1cm, white and brown insect feeding on fruits, what are they?
I found these insects yesterday that were feeding on a guava that I left outside for days. We have a tropical climate here (Mauritius). These insects are about 1 cm long. They have a white abdomen, ...
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