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What is this insect (or spider)?
This is a true bug larvae - thus, an insect - you correctly counted six legs :)
Characteristics of true bug larvae are the combination of the rostrum, the wing pockets and the dorsal scent glands (...
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Tiny insect identification in potted plants
These are a type of hexapod called springtails (Collembola).
Common Soil springtails. Source: UMN Extension
Springtails vary in size, shape, and color, but most are < 6 mm long (as low as ~1 mm) ...
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Help identifying an insect
Looks like a species of silverfish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygentoma
They eat paper, cloth and stored foods like cereal, even organic wall paste, so yes they can damage your stuff, but outside ...
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Very small, light and dark "insects" - Italy - Infestation, healthy problems? - Insect identification
I suspect these will be bird mites. These are a range of species from two genera (Ornithonyssus and Dermanyssus) that mainly infest birds, but can also cause infestations in humans, causing a ...
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How do bees and wasps react to carnivorous plants?
I'm not going to directly answer your question (which I think is an interesting one) because I do not have the data. However, I do want to share some anecdotal experience with you. (As such, my answer ...
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What kind of insect is this? It looks like a huge spider with one long antenna and six legs
While not completely sure, it definitely looks like an Arachnid. Upon further research, I have narrowed it down to either Amblypygi (i.e., whips spiders, tailless whip scorpions), or Solifugae (i.e., ...
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What kind of spider is it and was this web built beforehand? (Surprise find)
The pictures don't show the eyes, but from the shape of the cephalothorax, this is a jumping spider. Large ones are about 1 cm long, so unless that moth is huge, the size range fits. Here's a user-...
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What is this large insect?
For a full answer we would need to have further pictures of the back of the insect. However, NZ has few insects of that size range that are at all common, so I suspect that what you have here is a ...
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Identification of black-and-white striped jumping insect?
Due to the
chewing mouthparts,
the greatly developed femurs specifically adapted for jumping (what fits well with the OP's observation of jumping behaviour),
prominent compound eyes and
long, ...
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Mystery bug photographed in Brasil
From this photo (beautiful shot, btw!) you can see that it must be a true bug - admittedly, the diagnostic characteristics are hard to spot, but I will try to walk you there.
Most apparently, we see ...
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Identify a spider which is consuming a fly
This is something in the Thomisoidea family (Crab and Running Crab spider superfamily).
You can review the community-observed species of crab and running crab spiders in Czechia here: https://www....
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What species is this insect?
This is a weevil, a beetle in the superfamily Curculionoidea. Most weevils are easily identified by the usually-present elongated snout (or rostrum [Davis (2017)] )
There a number of common home-...
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I’ve been searching the internet for days and I can’t seem to find out what insect this is, can anyone help?
Counting the legs (4 on each side, so 8 in total), it must be a spider. According to the compact body shape and the relatively large "head" (prosoma), I guess it must be a jumping spider (...
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Weird Insect on Window, SW London
The overall appearance and shape points to a mayfly (in Ephemeroptera). However, I don’t know what species it is.
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Is this bug a termite?
This is a beetle rather than a termite:
in comparison to a termite, most beetles have sclerotized forewings (so-called elytra) and from above, you can recognize its head, pronotum and forewings.
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Were these spiders burried alive by a spider wasp?
I agree, I'd say it is the work of a spider wasp. I'm not familiar with those, so I can't determine what species or genus it might be. But it sure does look similar to some of those stages of the ...
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Identify this insect in Texas
The thorax is all wrong for a juvenile cockroach as others have suggested. (A cockroach would have an enlarged prothorax covering the head, as well as plate-like meso-and meto-thoraxes). Also, the ...
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What insect is this? Looks like a spider but with six legs and long antennae
This creature is an amblypygid (aka, whip spider, or tailless whip scorpion). Amblypygids are arachnids, but not spiders, and they are not venomous. Like other arachnids, they have eight legs, however ...
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Is continuous exposure to blue light lethal for mosquito larvae?
There are lots of relevant results from Google Search for "blue light mosquito larvae". Here is just one of them:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-14096-y
They are not all only ...
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Having a lot of trouble identifying this insect
This is a true bug (Heteroptera) larvae as the dorsal scent glands and the wing pockets show (see image below).
I suspect it to be a member of the family Coreidae as it exhibits typical (larval) ...
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Found a bug looks like a true bug but it has a mowhak
This inscent is a treehoppper or thorn bug (Membracidae). They belong to the Auchenorrhyncha.
Membracidae have a distinct transformed and enlarged (sometimes larger than the body itself) pronotum that ...
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Why are these ants emerging from underground?
Some hypotheses:
depending of the species, this could be because ants from another colony attack this colony from outside, then many ants inside go out to defend their colony. This could be coherent ...
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Need help identifying insects in home, Morgan Hill CA
This is a true bug (Heteroptera), likely a nymph of the family Rhyparochromidae. Until recently, this family was part of the Lygaeidea ("seed bugs"). As their colloquial name reveals, they (...
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What kind of insect appears in this photo?
I think these could be the eggs of woolly aphids(Eriosma lanigerum), which overwinter and spend their winter as either nymph or egg , woolly aphids usually lay their eggs in autumn .They are mostly ...
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Insect Identification Request -- brown and white flea-like bug
These are clearly the larvae of the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, to whom cicadas, leafhoppers, treehoppers, planthoppers, and spittlebugs belong:
the have an (usually) elongated body shape, often with a ...
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What kind of moth is this? Why does it have a stinger?
Without information about the origin and/or better quality photos of this moth, it reminds me of and could be a member of the subfamily Arctiinae.
What might look as a stinger, is part of its gential ...
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I have a fruit fly problem
Unfortunately the picture is too blurry, so I can only talk from experience : They might be parasitic mites. Insects often carry parasitic mites around.
Look at this article for example :
https://www....
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What is this insect (or spider)?
I think it could be this animal. It is the nymph of Leptoglossus occidentalis, the Western Conifer Seed Bug.
It fits in terms of size and the greenish-brown colour of the abdomen. Also the position of ...
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Behavioural experiment on Nasonia Wasps
I’ve previously used Posca pens to mark wasps during experiments - I think that’s going to be about as non-invasive as you can get without using some kind of advanced video tracking techniques. But ...
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I’ve been searching the internet for days and I can’t seem to find out what insect this is, can anyone help?
I found this ant mimicking spider. Could it have been a female? The green legs don´t fit and the 4(?) white dots. I don´t have much experience with spiders, but that might just be variation of their ...
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