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 are these semi transparent pill-shaped things in the Mediterranean Sea?
I was swimming with gopro in Sardinia, Le Bombarde beach in early November and today was reviewing footage - I noticed that water is full of semitransparent whitish "pills", see pictures ...
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Living in Singapore, what’s this bug? Found an identical one in my house on the floor
Hi! I’m living in Singapore (Southeast Asia). Found a small brown bug with a prominent dark stripe on its back like the pictured one, about the size of half a grain of rice. It was wandering around on ...
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Does anyone know what kind of bug is this? [duplicate]
i found these tiny little bugs today all over my windowsill, the walls around the window, and on my chargers in the plugin near the window. they’re like microscopic i can’t even see them. i used a ...
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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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Need to Identify This Bug
When I woke up this morning I found 10 or more of these tiny little red and brown bug on the window to above the kitchen sink. They must be attracted to the light as the sun was just rising. I killed ...
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Mushroom identification in in a balcony planter in Bavaria
I've seen the following mushroom pop up in a balkoney planter in Bavaria (Germany) in June. They were growing pretty quickly (just in a few days)
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Does somebody knows this european bird that i saw close to a river in an open grasland?
I saw today afternoon (10. June) this bird and would like to know the species name. It was on a sunny day in the middle of the Netherlands (central Europe) in an wet meadow close to a big river. I ...
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Bug/larva identification
What do you think these could be?
The photo was taken today from the inside of a bin liner, which contained waste from fruit and vegetables (carrot skin, banana peel, salad leaves, etc.), and (...
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I am trying to identify this bone I found on the beach at the Delaware Bay in Delaware. It is 2 1/2 inches wide and 1 1/2 tall
This bone was found at Big Stone beach on the Delaware bay, Delaware. It weighs only 19 grams
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Can someone identify this insect?
I photographed this wasp like insect on a buttercup in my wildlife garden. It can be no longer than 10-15mm. The bands appear green rather than yellow but I suspect that might be due to the lighting....
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I don't know what this is?
I went into my shed today and found this bloody spot with something I'm not sure what it was. Have any idea???
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What insect/bug species do these belong to?
I randomly saw what I thought was dust on the counter in my bathroom (NYC Apartment - higher apartment, >10 floors up) this afternoon (June 1st) ... but when I got closer observed that they were ...
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Identify this ladybug-like insect, with yellow eyes and cream spots
I have spotted this cream spotted ladybird like insect on my terrace. I live in Hyderabad, India and it's rare to see such an insect here. I have tried using image searches but haven't found any good ...
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request for insect identification [duplicate]
A number of these insects have appeared in a house we are staying in on Fire Island. I would be grateful for any identification. Its length is roughly the width of the distal segment of my finger. A ...
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Identifying a bug
I found this bug ( vary in size )after deep cleaning to my bedroom today exactly in my bed sheets and window sill and my desk , can someone help me identify them
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underwater bug identification
There is a small pond outside my work (more like a run-off ditch from a parking lot). Once a year it gets swarmed by this tiny bug. I am having some trouble identifying it. The biggest ones were about ...
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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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Please help strang micro warm like thing found in dogs kennel in Conyers Georgia
I found this strange tiny warm under my five months old puppy's cage can someone please help find out what it is their was about thirty of them her cage is cleaned regularly and is dry and cozy I've ...
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What kind of insect is this? It looks like a huge spider with one long antenna and six legs
It looks like a huge spider but with six legs and has one very long antenna. It also looks like it has claws. Please I would like to know what sort of insect it is. So I would know measures to take if ...
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ID Large brown/grey spider with light stripe along back
Giant spider on my door. Walked up to the door this morning and saw this beautiful lady waiting for me. I moved her to a tree so she can rest.
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Identify blue/translucent jelly-like animal on beach
A few weeks back a beach in California had lots of this animal (if it is an animal?). Can anyone identify what it is?
They had a distinct blue bottom and a see-through top.
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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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Which kind of inflorescence(s) does Sonchus oleraceus have?
Many capitulum inflorescences, several corymb inflorescences with capitulum inflorescences as the end nodes of each corymb inflorescence, or one compound corymb inflorescence with capitulum ...
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Identify a spider which is consuming a fly
can you please identify this spider which was found on indoor banana plant eating(?) a fly?
Located in central europe - Czech Republic, Moravia region. Photo taken in April 23rd. Banana plant is ...
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What type of beetle is this? It was on the wall in my backyard
This insect was on the wall in my backyard. I live in Southern California. Does anyone know what is is?
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What species is this insect?
I would be grateful for help identifying the insect depicted in the attached picture. It was found inside a residential building (ground floor) at the periphery of Valladolid, a city in Yucatán, ...
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Identify this insect in Texas
Please help identify the insect in the attached picture. It was found in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas, today, April 18 2023. It is about 0.25 inches long.
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Indian snake ID
I saw this snake being attacked on the ground by a dog and it escaped up a tree with amazing rapidity. Can anyone help with the ID? It was maybe nearly a metre long. Seen in Rajasthan.
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Leaf pictures: Which disease?
I had several plants that with same symptoms, which all eventually died within some weeks: Formation of blisters along stem (no picture) and leaf veins, that seem to pop up (assumption) and make ...
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Identification of these birds
We recently put up a bird house and put a camera in it. We appear to have two new neighbours, but what is the species?
We live in the south-western part of Norway.
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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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What are these… worms?
I found these little guys hanging from a light in my kitchen in Sydney, Australia, on what appeared to be a string of silk or cobweb:
They crawl like worms. Can anyone help me figure out what they ...
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Help to identify a odd skull
I found this skull in the woods, I came across an old stable that the roof was falling in. In the corner there was tree limbs stacked neatly as if something stacked them and the limbs were no bigger ...
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Identifying fish or shark jaw bone
I found this on the beach of coastal southern Maine in early March. The teeth are not a single row and lighter is for size comparison
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Identify item found on Naples, FL (USA) beach. Hard like a shell but with no opening
Very hard and translucent. Very sharp point.
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Queen ant among workers on well developed trail?
I took a picture of what I believe is a queen ant. I have a well developed ant trail in my bathroom and she was following along like all the other workers. Her speed and behavior appeared identical to ...
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Which species of bird does this feather belong to?
I found a feather at work when cleaning, a pleasant surprise. However, I cannot identify which bird species it belongs it. Between a friend and I, we deduced it to most likely be a falcon feather. ...
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What bug could this be?
I found a bunch of bugs, approximately 2-3mm in my kitchen, most of them dead and with a throughout search i found a bunch of them living in my gluten-free flour and on some other products like fried ...
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What is this fungus in my plant growth medium?
I am growing S. lycopersicum on 1x Gamborgs medium and have been getting some fungal like contamination. The media contains 0.2% sucrose and Bacto-Agar. Plants are grown at a 21 c - 20 c day, night ...
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What kind of spider is it and was this web built beforehand? (Surprise find)
I am surprise to find an insect caught at the end of what seems to be very long nearly invisible thread/web, most importantly where the insect is caught is actually a passage way where we enter the ...
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What is this freshwater microorganism?
Can anyone help us identify this microorganism?
Location: muddy pond water in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Size: For size reference, I think that's a euglena on its lower left.
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Biological Key for Yard Weeds?
I'm tinkering with an idea for an app to identify yard weeds, just as a personal project. I've been looking for some sort of dichotomous key (ie, "Does it have fur?" "Does it have ...
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Are these microscopic star-like structures on a dead leaf some sort of organism? If so, which one?
I’m wondering what these star-shaped organisms are on a dead leaf I found in my backyard (Texas, USA). This was taken under my microscope at 40x magnification. They seem to be clear organisms with ...
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What species is this white thin shell? Santa Cruz, California
These shells (see in green circle) are empty inside which look like very flat marble donuts/coins.
The small ones are like dollar coins; big ones can be cup coaster-sized.
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What is this large insect?
A large (body about 4 cm long) flying insect flew into my workshed when it was very dark, warm and humid outside, probably attracted by the lights. It fell onto the bench upside down and could not ...
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What kind of skull is this - fish?
Skull found near Merrimack River, West Newbury, MA frequented by Eagles, Hawks. Some kind of fish maybe? It's about the size of a hand
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Help identify parasitic plant on oak seedling
See pictures below. I found five of them on a patch of oak seedlings in northern Turkey yesterday, they are about 2 centimeters in diameter and smell like grass.
Five months later:
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Can someone help me identify what type of spider or insect builds a green nest that is black an gold [closed]
I had the same thing a spider like creature that was black and gold the size of a dime that was building a green sack like web that stuck to the windshield. Location south texas winter, any supspects?
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What are these white, fuzzy dome-shaped contaminants growing on my LB agar plate?
We are attempting to extract bacteriophages from environmental samples. We recently had an issue with an unknown contaminant when trying to grow a lawn of M abscessus for a bacteriophage isolation ...
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