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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Is this poison ivy?
Location: Sunny, dry, well-drained yard. East of Toronto, Ontario.
Date: August 2, 2022
Description: Three leaves, new leaves are oily and reddish, woody stem, vine crawls along ground
Hint: It's ...
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Is this a Kestrel?
Apologies for the poor pictures, they are a crop of a tiny part of a picture taken with max zoom.
A nature reserve in Bulgaria, I often see those birds while I hike there. They let people come quite ...
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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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Vertebra identification
What type of vertebra is this? It was found on a beach in Corea, Maine.
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What is this unusual butterfly?
Sighted in West London, July 23rd., 2022. The weather was cool and overcast. I could only get a picture of the underwing, but the upper wing was orange towards the head, and white towards the tail, ...
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Colorado insect identification
Found this bug in my backyard, but was unable to identify it. Thanks for any hint!
Edit : I live in the south east suburbs of Denver, Centennial.
So this is quite an urban area. I found this bug on my ...
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Lumpy green balls on tomato leaf
We live in central Maryland, USA, and pulled this off a tomato plant in our garden this morning (mid-summer). Any idea what these are? Not sure if they’re beneficial or parasitic, but I’d say the ...
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Identifying a Texan horned butterfly
I found this butterfly on some late-season bluebonnets in Fort Worth, Texas, this evening. You can get some sense of scale if you know how big bluebonnets are; the body is probably about the size of ...
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Please help me identify this plant. Is the fruit edible?
When free, could the experts here please help me identify this plant.
Location: Puget Sound, Washington State, US
Height: 3-4 feet
Date: July
Is the orange colored fruit edible?
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Are there flies that can spray their eggs while flying?
While I was reading a few articles about parasitic infections caused by flies, to be specific Myiasis, I read something saying that some flies can spray their eggs when they are flying around their ...
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Help identifying possible fossil found in coastal northern Iran
This was found in Jangels near by the sea, in North Iran:
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Volunteer/seedling in Toronto garden
What species of plant is this?
Location: Toronto area (Ontario, Canada)
Date: July 7, 2022
Conditions: Acid soil in shade
Height: Approx. 11 inches
Description: Younger leaves resemble tomato leaves. ...
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Is this insect a bedbug? [duplicate]
I just found this bug on our bed. So even though it is literally a bedbug… is it actually a bedbug? We have never had an issue before and no signs of bites. But finding this worries me now…
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What kind of scorpion is this?
This is in Nevada; it's about the size of a tooth pick in length.
(click to enlarge)
What kind of scorpion is this?
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Can you identify this mosquitoe-like bug?
I'm wondering what is this bug, I have never seen it before and its behaviour is just weird for me, they just try to climb to the top of the window, then fall and start over again, I see no hole they ...
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Found this under a rock at the beach, removed it carefully and couldn't find any other bones, must be a marine mammal of some sort
Does anyone know what this is? I know this is not a land mammal because [details needed].
Unknown skull found under rock at beach.
No sign of eye sockets or jaw with teeth.
I have no idea what this ...
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What species of poplar tree is this?
I am looking for information on how to identify a poplar (Populus) tree. It is located in Dresden, Germany, next to a small stream. The city tree database lists it as Populus nigra. However, it ...
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What is the bird that are on house and make sound during part of the night?
For a few weeks, my neighbour is disturbed by a sound that seems to comes from me. It's mostly heard at the end of a day, but he said the sound stops in the night.
After checking, yes, it seems to be ...
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What is this marine creature? Is this a fossil?
Found this on a beach on the East coast of India - Vishakhapatnam, India
Is this a fossil? A coral?
Its small enough to fit in my hand
These tunnel-like structures are hard like rock/calcified
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What types of spider and caterpillar are these, and what are they doing?
What varieties of spider / caterpillar(?) are these?
And what is the spider doing to the caterpillar?
This is in Texas.
This went on for hours, with the spider dancing with the caterpillar in the ...
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How to distinguish hornbeam from hophornbeam?
The town where I live plants both hornbeam trees (Carpinus betulus) and hophornbeans (Ostrya carpinifolia) as street trees. How can they be reliably distinguished, especially when there is no fruit on ...
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What is the name of this creature?
What is the name of this creature?
It looks like either a crustacean or a conch.
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Can you identify this dead bug?
I found this bug in the kitchen and already killed it. It's in austria area. Can someone tell me if it's dangerous?
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Bug Identification North Carolina Help
I found this bug up in North Carolina and it freaked me out because I found it inside. Would anyone be familiar with this type of bug?
I apologize for the bad angle, it is not a bee at all, but had a ...
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What are these most tiny bugs called
These bugs are the smallest bugs I've ever seen in my life and they are very annoying, throughout the day, I just feel sudden scratches on my body and when I look closely, the cause are these bugs ...
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A cup of milk dregs has turned a deep blue color. What is growing in it?
Ok, so yes this is gross and all. But it was too amazing to me to keep to myself. I left a cup with a small amount of leftover milk from "honey bunches of oats" out for like 2-3 days and ...
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Is this Poison Hemlock?
There is a lot of this growing in standing water near a drainage route and spring. It looks similar to water or poison hemlock.
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Fresh Water Fish Identification
A couple of days ago I just adopted a group of 7 fishes, 2 inches long each, orange-pinkish color, a black dot before the tail, very fast, active and peacefull. Looks like a kind of tetra fish. Anyone?...
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Arachnid identification request
Every so often I come across one of these (presumably) spiders, but haven't been able to find out what species it is.
It is black, ~7mm in length, has a long and narrow body and relatively short legs, ...
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Which spider(?) is this hanging out on my seaside daisy?
The title says it all... location: Switzerland
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Is this a worker, or something else?
As far as I understand, this is a buff-tailed bumble bee (Bombus terrestris). It was collected (dying) inside my house in Santiago, Chile. The species was intentionally introduced not far away, for ...
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What is this colorful bug from Germany?
a friend found this little fella just outside of Berlin and managed to snap a blurry picture.
This boy or girl is probably the size of a finger nail and features fly like skin wings with no hard ...
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What is this insect found in Melbourne, Australia?
This photo was taken a few days ago (late May 2022, during daylight hours) on a timber deck in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. The animal is roughly 3cm long. The photograph shows shed ...
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Please help identify this plant
This plant/branch was part of a table decoration brought home from La Puente, CA, a week ago. It's been kept in a jar of water. I hope to:
Learn the name(s) of this plant.
Learn the correct ...
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What is this spider? Found in garage during May in NY
Stands very flat with its legs very outstretched, doubles-up its front legs (first pic looks like it only has 6 legs). Brownish-dark gray, not quite black. It's alive, but it wasn't particular active ...
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corse tree identification
My nosy belling-cat was asking itself what kind of mediterranean tree/fruit is seen on the pictures below. Location is Corsica, St. Florent - late June.
Extra points on nutrition factors in case of ...
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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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Is this an instar of the red fire bug?
While inspecting some yarrow that seemed to be having problems, I found a few of these bugs. I think they may be an instar of red firebug, but the photos of the nymphs that I found had only one row of ...
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Identification: tall conifer with tamarisk-like leaves
I am looking to identify a conifer that I found in a public park. Please see below for pictures of the leaves, bark and habit (click for full-size view).
I normally use Pl@ntNet for identification, ...
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Is this a bedbug or something else?
Found it on my bedsheet close to my pillow. My boyfriend had a couple of welts a few weeks ago on his chest, but we can’t seem to find any other evidence on the mattress or around it.
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What is the name of this species of bird?
I've enjoyed watching this pair of birds build a nest in my patio light. One bird now appears to be in residence, and the red bird seems to come and go. I think they might be mates? These photos ...
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Coniferous tree with alternating bunches of short needles (Toronto area)
What species of tree is this?
Location: East of Toronto, zone 6; urban
Date of photos: May 10, 2022
Diameter at breast height: ~18 inches
Height: ~30 ft
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What is the name/type/species of this insect?
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Found in a bathtub in western Washington (state) (the pacific northwest).
3/16-1/4" long, 1/8-3/16 thick.
Gray colored.
No elongated noise but two antennas.
No pets in home, older 1969 ...
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This looks like it was somebody’s home - but who?
Found this near the edge of a forest in upstate New York. It looks like the remnant of a cocoon of some kind. I would appreciate any help in identifying its original maker / occupant.
I hope my ...
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Is this bark beetle going to be a problem?
This little (around 3mm in length) beetle is one of many that infested a gingerbread heart in our house. It seems to be some kind of bark beetle. My question is what exact species it is likely to be ...
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ant ID montreal, qc canada
I'd like to know what type of ants this is. These appeared in my basement recently.
I am thinking those are called "pavement ants" after comparing online. Please help me identify them.
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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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Is this an Australian Wolf Spider? Any idea on the species if so?
I live in Western Australia, and recently have been finding a lot of a particular type of spider out in my backyard (generally at night, on the lawn).
From what I could find, I believe it is an ...
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What bird is singing at almost 3 AM in Hong Kong? (recording included)
I live in Hong Kong and there’s a bird around my street that sings around 3 AM, when there isn’t the slightest bit of twilight.
I have recorded its song here: https://youtube.com/shorts/0dBNvPAgLmU?...
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