Questions tagged [species-identification]
Questions looking to find the name of a specific organism. Please include as much information as possible on location/habitat, size/characteristics and behavior. Ideally, you should provide images.
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What's this aquatic bug?
I have a small freshwater aquarium at home with only some aquatic plants at the moment. In the summer, I put some mud and sand from a local pond into the tank. At some point, I noticed a strange ...
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What species are these, beetle eggs?
I posted a thread the other day and identified I have carpet beetles larvae. I have a pest control company booked to treat the place on Monday but in the meantime I’ve found these little things on 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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Identifying a bone I found in Central France
I found this bone in Auvergne as a child. This specific area is apparently well-known to paleontologists and I found the bone in a field very close to scientific excavations (literally meters away ...
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Can anyone identify this seed, pit, or nut?
I found this on the recessed top of the intake manifold of my car engine. It may have been there for weeks. It was likely brought there by a rat or squirrel who was unable to chew through the outer ...
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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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Is this woodlouse or bed bug?
I have found 3 of these things in the main bedroom within 4 days of each other. A little freaked out, can someone advise if these are woodlouse or bed bugs? and now just added another pic (first pic?) ...
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What type of tortoise is this?
Found him on the street in San Antonio subdivision unsure of what type of tortoise he might be.
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Is this arthropod non-intrusive and recommended to be left alive?
I am in Portugal (Lisbon) at the moment, and when leaving my room late at night (12 pm ~ 04 am) I usually face about 4 of these arthropods in the corridors:
(For reference, the "line" in the image is ...
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Caterpillar(?) in Leaf Cocoon identification - Missouri
A small chunk of leaves fell off of a potted tomato plant. We noticed our cats taking an interest in it once it started moving. Then a little caterpillar poked its head out. What kind of bug is this ...
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Species identification. Is this a leech?
The pictured creature, shown at the bottom of a glass, was attached to a friend’s child after he was swimming in the Ottawa River today. It stretches out to roughly an inch in length but in this “...
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Mushroom Identification: Brown gilled mushroom in Ohio lawn near rotting stump roots
Even though I ID a lot on this site, I'm rather unqualified to ID mushrooms (even with the help of sites like urbanmushrooms.com).
Can anyone help me ID this mushroom species?
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What is this cocoon (if any)?
I found this cocoon (or what I think looks like a cocoon) in an urban hedgerow in Upper Bavaria, Germany in early October (begin of autumn).
Around was a web, but no inhabitants were there.
Its ...
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What is this insect looking like a wasp or an ant?
It looks like a black wasp or big ant with wings. It produces no noise. It mostly sits at one place on the wall, does not move. The young (or another gender) form has unproportionally long back legs, ...
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Skull of which animal ist it?
Hi someone found this skull in ancient city of iran I'm just curious to find out which animal belongs this skull?
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Could some identify this bird call? (from the hu - wolf totem)
What species is making this sound?
You can hear the sound it makes at the end of the music video: The HU - Wolf Totem
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Can anyone identify this bug please
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 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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What kind of animals are these little creatures?
I have 3 tanks. 1 with my fishes and 2 other are technical.
The smallest one is 0.5l and I'm using it as trash bin where I put dead plants and algae from main aquarium and it has sand from the see at ...
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Identifying a plant in the botanical garden of Paris
I went to the botanical garden in the "Jardin des Plantes" in Paris. In a glasshouse with the name "Serre de l'histoire des plantes" on the natural history of plants (exhibiting ...
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What kind of spider is this (from Bangladesh)?
I just saw this spider in my bathroom. I was wondering what kind of spider is this and if it is venomous.
Country: Bangladesh
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Hammerhead worm
Which Bipalium is this worm? It has no tripe. Nor head collar. It is dark brown as can be seen in the image. This worm is right now in Mauritius. Please help me recognise this Hammerhead worm. Thanks
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Species identification - what kind of worm is this?
I am finding these worms in my bathroom since summer arrived. I have been finding these on floor, walls and damp towel I left hung overnight in bathroom couple of times. When these worms are squished, ...
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Identification of invertebrate [duplicate]
Found on mattresses/walls in France. Size about 3mm long.
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What bird species were featured on this album?
I am very curious about the identity of the feathered subjects on the cover for Susumu Yokota's 2000 Album "Sakura."
The one on the left seems to be some kind of hummingbird. Not sure what ...
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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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Black w/orange fuzzy on back spider in Mojave desert
Heading ##zoom in on Black & Orange fuzzy back of spider. What is it & is it a good Guy ???
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Name this insect
This is the monsoon season and some black insects are flying in my house. They have a very bad smell. Does anyone know what is the name of that insect, including English and Hindi name?
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What jellyfish is this?
I saw this jellyfish at Brighton Beach, Victoria, Australia. I have searched jellyfish images but there is nothing similar. It is round with a diameter of approximately 80cm and the blue part looks ...
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Is this a juvenile Middle Spotted Woodpecker?
Place: Vienna, Austria
Time: October, 8th, 2023; morning
Behaviour: Likely eating from bark
From apps and pictures, I quickly gained confidence in this being a specimen of the Middle Spotted ...
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Help identifying a mushroom found in Raymond, WA, USA
Hello dear mycology wizards!
Could you help me figure out what's the name of this species.
I found the mushrooms in a forest near to Raymond, WA. The area was quite wet and mossy, but not a swamp. ...
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Identify this bone found on beach
Does anyone have an idea what this bone is?
It was found on the beach in the Outer Banks, North Carolina, USA.
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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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I found this tiny transparent creature in my aquarium - what is it?
Please help me identify this 1-2 mm nearly transparent animal which I found in my salt water aquarium.
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What are these small, indoor bugs?
I live in Switzerland and have noticed these small bugs appear in my bedroom, either slowly crawling on the parquet flooring, lazily buzzing around or dead on my windowsill (as pictured):
I'm not ...
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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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How do microbiologists decide whether two morphotypes on the same plate belong to the same strain?
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Colony: A colony, in microbiology, is a visible cluster or mass of microorganisms (such as bacteria or fungi) that has grown and multiplied on a solid agar medium. Each colony represents a ...
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Identify a hanging plant with spherical leaves
This plant was found in the "drylands" section of a public conservatory (you can see a potted cactus in the background). It did not have a label, and there was nobody around to ask about it....
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What kind of spider is this please? Southern Indiana. Very strong web
It never comes out during the day so it's been hard to get a decent picture. We have been battling over ownership of my mailbox. It's a house box and every morning it's covered in cobweb from it to ...
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Insect with long neck—what is it?
I found this insect in Fish Haven, Idaho (right next to Bear Lake) in June and think it’s absolutely fascinating:
If you can’t tell from the picture, it’s a few centimeters in length—very thin with a ...
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Please help identify this tiny bug [duplicate]
Starting about 2 months ago I began seeing these tiny, light brown bugs in one bathroom. I did find them outside the bathroom but in close proximity to it (on a childs wooden toy and in our picture ...
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Large grey bird at creek mouth (east of Toronto)
What species of bird is this?
Spotted at the mouth of Graham Creek at Newcastle Marina (Bond Head), Lake Ontario, Canada
September 9, 2023
The bird was roughly 18 inches tall; dark grey body; light ...
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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
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I am trying to identify this plant
I am trying to identify this medium arching shrub growing to about 1.5m high x 2m wide in the subtropical climate of the Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens in Brisbane, Australia. Unfortunately there was no ...
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Identification: creepy dangling spiderthing
Can anyone identify this creepy mess dangling from the cieling of my garage on a few strands of spidersilk? The thing is 5cm.
Should I burn down my garage and move to another country (Currently ...
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Are These Oyster Crabs?
I found these crabs at the end of September, 2018. My family was vacationing on the coast of Lopez Island in the Pacific Ocean off of Washington State. I have been trying to figure out what they are ...
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What type of ants are these?
I live in NYC and these fellas started popping out near my computer screen and desk. They don't seem interested in food as my sister usually leaves candy wrappers around. They however are stinky, I ...
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Insect identification request - Is this a bed bug? Colorado, USA [duplicate]
I found three of these bugs in our friends house all dead. I never found an alive one… But I’ve been waking up with bites in the breakfast lunch and dinner pattern.
I want to confirm they are bedbugs ...
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Ladybug: Number of spots
I'm interested in Ladybugs. I read a lot about the number of spots of ladybugs. The number seems to be between 0 and 24, but as far as I can see, not every number in between exist. Up to now, I found ...
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