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Insect identification - Possible grasshopper or grass beetle
We found a small insect on our window and we cannot decide whether it is a type of grasshopper or grass beetle. It doesn't seem to want to fly, but was on a first floor bedroom window, and walks ...
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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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Want to know about a creature which bite me
I am Sachin from MP India. Few minutes back I have gotten bite by a creature. What is its name? Is it harmful if I got bitten by it? Feeling little pain there.
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Identify this thin and strangely-shaped dragonfly, and understand why the shape looks so weird
I took these photos around noon in mid August in Hsinchu county Taiwan. I've seen many dragonfly varieties but I've never seen anything like this before.
Its body is about 5 cm long and very thin ...
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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 is this insect in North Carolina?
This insect is in my house in North Carolina, USA. I think it shares similar body features of that of a wasp, but it is far too narrow and has what appears to be a long stinger. What is it?
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Identifying an insect in Cambridge UK
I have come across an insect in Cambridge UK that I could not identify.
I tried to find this in various catalogues of local insects without success. The insect was about 1-2cm in length and didn't ...
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Help identify this mite?
I saw a decimal-sized dot walking on my hand. I wanted to know what this is, so I got it onto some paper and sandwiched below a piece of clear tape so I could keep it in place and photograph it. ...
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Insect identification - pantry moth vs clothes moth
Are the following insects a pantry moth or a clothes moth? I live in Europe, if geographical location is of importance in this case.
The insects are about 7 - 10 mm in length.
For several months I ...
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What is the name of this insect?
This insect was found in my garden in India on the evening of August 07, 2019. It's rainy season here.
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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.
Can anyone tell me ...
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What type of Insect Egg is this?
Can you please tell me what type of insect eggs these are? I found them in the corners of my office kitchen behind boxes and cardboard. Found them in between the broom bristles. Found them along the ...
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Identify grasshopper species
I found this grasshopper on a house door in central Italy. It did not move for the whole day. I can tell it's a grasshopper, however I am unable to determine the exact species.
Size: ca. 6cm
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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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What is this small black insect with an orange stripe?
Sorry for the poor quality of the second image, but a slightly different perspective may be useful.
This was taken in South Africa, Western Cape during the day.
They're fairly small, maybe around 5mm ...
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Identifying unknown biting insect
Pattaya (Thailand). Unknown insect (similar to a beetle) that bite: long 2 mm, large 1 mm. It has 2 front claws. Pictures attached.
Probably it lost some legs when killed (I felt the bite and I ...
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Which ant/wasp species is that?
Anybody knows which species (or genus, family...) of ant/wasp is that?
It's from Brazilian Amazon (Upper Negro River, Amazonas state). About 2-3 cm long (about one inch), maybe. It was walking on the ...
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What’s the name of this insect that looks like a leaf? I found it in Taiwan
Found it in a tea plantation. It can jump.
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What is this insect? 6 legs and black spots
What is this bug?
Details:
- Georgia, (Southern) USA
- Maybe 1-4cm in size
- Seen near an open area/crack between an outer door-frame and door where it could have come from outside, or going from ...
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Identification of huge larva in South Tyrol
On a sunny autumn day (19.09.2021) i saw a huge green larva crossing the street facing a wineyard. The picture was taken near Bozen, South Tyrol (22 °C that day). It is at least 14 cm long and 2 cm ...
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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 bedbug or book louse? [duplicate]
Hello everyone.
I have been seeing tiny critters like this one in bed and I started to worryif they are bed bugs. Although they seem different in appearance as well as the fact that they don't seem to ...
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Bug Identification: Is this small tubular, black bug a bed bug?
So I found this tiny bug on my wall in the bedroom of my apartment. I estimate it is about 3mm long by 1mm wide.
Is it a bed bug?
It does not seem to match any of the pictures I've seen online.
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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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What type of insect is it?
I've found this insect in my apartment and I don't know it could be bed bug or not. Could it be hazardous and what are the ways for getting rid of it?
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From what kind of insect might these eggs be
Does anybody know what kind of insect might have laid these eggs:
The photo was taken a few days ago in Limburg, Belgium near a pasture with some goats.
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Red bug with white tips on antennae
These red bugs can be found in hundreds in our locality in Bangalore, India.
They are just about 3.5 cm and have these white (or maybe pale yellow) tips on their antennae.
Can someone identify ...
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I have a black tiny bug crawling all over the house
This bug is crawling all around the house it stays within the shadows and moves very very slow, i have never seen it jump or run, it just moves very slowly
P.S. those bugs as u can see are smaller ...
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Identification of a red arachnida (?) (picture and video)
I found this in a greenhouse in Norway. It is a few millimeters in size, I could fit 5-6 of them on my thumbnail.
It looks a lot like this one from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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What species is this fly? Look like mosquito with unusually long legs
I found this in Bangalore, India. It looks exactly like a mosquito but with extremely long legs, first I confused it with long legged spider (which are common here) but it's not, Can someone tell me ...
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Are these springtails and isopods?
G'day!
I'm based in Victoria, Australia.
I'm hoping to culture springtails for my terrariums, so I went out and tried to collect some. I found them underneath a rock, which was sitting on damp ground. ...
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What kind of bug is this? I found it on my Cleome plant in Atlanta Georgia
This bug was on my cleome plant in Atlanta Georgia
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What is this bug found in a garden in Utah?
Apologies for the poor quality of the photo.
I found this bug in a garden in Utah. The body was flattish, with teal markings (lighter than it looks in the photo) with an interesting pattern of three ...
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What are these tiny, swarming, jumping bugs?
I built a small plywood box in my yard (on Long Island, NY, USA) for some stray cats about a year ago. I didn't bother waterproofing the box, and so over time the box has gotten damp.
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Can you identify this insect (orange back, 6 legs)?
Found a couple of them in central europe on a zucchini plant (in august).
They are about a centimeter in size.
Tried looking for insect with orange back and 6 legs but no result.
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Identify this insect with a big "face" pattern on its brown fuzzy wings
Hiking in low mountains in northern Taiwan in early May I noticed that something seemed to be looking at me from the ground, and it turned out to be the pattern on an insect's wings.
The wings are ...
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What kind of insect eggs are these (found in Malaysia)?
What kind of eggs are these?
Found outside on a window, when I removed them via scraping, whitish oozy fluid came out. I've seen this before but they've been appearing more frequently, always appear ...
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What is this creature I found on my house? [closed]
What is this creature and what species is this?
I found this on my balcony.
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Help identifying a bug which looks like a housefly and mosquito hybrid
I'm from Kochi, India (southern part of India). I found this bug inside my house , it was about a centimeter long . But how can such an hybrid be possible. (It was raining before I found it).
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Horned Mohawk looking insect. What is it?
Any ideas? I didn't know any other way to explain it.
I live in Indiana, USA if that helps.
Someone said it might be a "stink bug" but I'm not sure and not willing to find out!
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Is this flying bug swarm termites? Found in New York city, approx 7mm
Just saw a giant swarm of these fly out in between pavers and a door sill from a small crack in the ground here in New York City. There seemed to be hundreds of them swarming out very quickly. They ...
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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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Trying to identify a bug that left a blood spot when killed
Hi, this was flying around inside the car in northwestern Maryland, USA, yesterday. When I squished it with a tissue I was surprised to see a red spot that appeared to be blood. Cannot find a picture ...
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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 creepy little thing that I found sticking on my bathroom wall?
I found this creepy looking thing hanging on my bathroom wall. This is actually the 2nd time I have seen it. The first one I saw looked kind of dried up already stuck in between the walls. But this ...
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What kind of insect can this be? This appears to be just a shell after and insect went through a metamorphosis process
What kind of insect can this be? This appears to be just a shell after an insect went through a metamorphosis process.
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