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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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Unknown insect in southern Kansas
My wife and I just moved to Southern Kansas and are still learning the local fauna could anyone please tell us what type of insect this is.
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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.
Most ...
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Is this a spiders net or a wasp net?
I have found something scary on my attic (Bavaria, Germany - found in June):
Size: The small one is a bit bigger than a ping-pong ball. The big one is smaller than a soccer-ball... maybe the size of ...
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Help me identify this wasp-like insect
I've never seen wasps with long legs like that.
It's not big, about 1-2cm in length (not counting legs).
Could you identify this?
UPD: location is central Ukraine
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What insect is this? Found in a dying tree
I recently found this insect near where I live, where my childs play always! Is it dangerous ??. What insect is this ?
Is it poisonous?
Its about 3cm
Picture:
I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Is it possible to identify a worm being carried by a depicted wasp?
Wikimedia has a picture of a Ancistrocerus trifasciatus / mason wasp carrying a kind of worm:
Is it possible to tell what exactly kind of worm it is, based only on the above image, number of worm's ...
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Identify a large wasp (?) from southern Poland
This insect has appeared "out of nowhere" in one of my rooms. Can you help me identify it?
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location: Katowice, Upper Silesia, southern Poland, eastern Europe (46.42 N, 17.78 E),
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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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Large Alpine Hymenopteran Seen in the White Mountains
I was hiking in the White Mountains in New Hampshire, USA, and at the peak of Mount Eisenhower saw a number of large bee-like insects. They appeared to be nesting in a rock cairn, and were strikingly ...
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Which species of bee or wasp are in this photo?
Please tell me what do you think :)
The photo is from Santander, Colombia. I didn’t take any closeups photos 😞, but these were little bees, like 5 x 1 mm. The tube didn’t seem man-made, it was ...
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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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Can you help me identifying an insect I saw?
I'm a student of biology and yesterday we went to the fields to collect some plants for our herbariums.
Suddenly one student of our group said that he saw a very strange bug that he thought that was ...
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Is this is a parasitic wasp, which I found in Blackpool Lancashire?
A wasp I photographed on my van window in Blackpool just before it attacked me.
Is it true that it’s rare to see them in the UK?
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What type of wasp is this?
I've been trying to match this wasp to photos, but it seems like every species has something that doesn't quite match up. I killed it in my home in Indiana, USA. My best guess is a Northern Paper Wasp ...
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Does anyone know what insect is this?
Living in Brasília, central Brazil; currently experiencing rainy warm/hot days.
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Is this a nest and which wasp species?
A friend found this stuck to his insect screen today.
He said it felt like dust.
This wasp/bee was alive.
Location is Germany.
Is this a nest?
First look:
After peeling it open:
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Need help identifying this wasp/hornet
I am currently on holiday in southern France and have noticed that the house we are staying in has somewhat of a hornet/wasp problem.
Is there anybody that can help in identifying it? My best guess ...
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Wasp nest destroyed by some big wasp like insect: is that the queen?
I had a small wasp nest in my bathroom. Initially there were only two to three wasps but the number increased to eight.
Today morning a big wasp-like insect (shown in the image below) came to the ...
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Which organism built this 2 cm long sandy tube?
I found this tube and wondered which animal built it.
It is 2 cm long and has an entrance/exit hole on one side. The material seems to be sandy.
I assume it is for breeding purposes.
Before finding ...
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Can you identify this Illinois wasp?
I live in northern Illinois and had these guys appearing in my room. No facial markings and they seem non agressive.
About 2cm in length with off white u shaped markings below it's waist and a single ...
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What is this wasp?
We live in central New York and these large (1.25") wasps are invading our house pretty regularly. I want to say it's a great black wasp, but the pale yellow striping makes me wonder.
A sample ...
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What is this bee/wasp nest?
Perhaps this is a tropical wasp. Can you identify it? Is it artificial?
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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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What wasp like insect breeds in clay pots with dead spiders?
I found several small clay pots of oval/cigar shape roughly 2cm long in a rarely used window in the house, because a wasp like insect was flying into a small cavity of the window.
I removed one and ...