99% of these insects are smaller than a flaxseed & bigger than window screen. Westwold, BC first year ever seen and first time in house! Inside only on all window sills. Three year old windows. These insects fly. Not in furniture. Not on occupants or pets. They fly. No bites. Maybe coming in window sill […]
5955 Hello sir.. I found these bugs all around my house located in Stittsville Ontario. I found it last time in my daughter hair.. I need to get rid of it as soon as possible cause maybe it will hurt my babies .. Thanks This is a box elder bug. They are common in your […]
5957 Please help! I’m finding this bug creeping along usually on fabric / furniture / carpet. Not really in kitchen or bathroom. It’s about a little bigger than a fleck of pepper or so. Only find one at a time, never in a group – maybe see one every week or so. The body doesnt […]
5960 I live in Modesto, California it is gloomy outside, I found this bug in my driveway this morning it was on its back moving his 4 legs like it was trying to overturn itself. I left it alone 6 hours later I go check on it and turned it over with A stick it […]
5982 Hello, My name is Matt and I found this bug in our washroom, located in Richmond hill Ontario. I find smaller versions of these bugs frequently. Do you know what it is? This is a house centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata, a cosmopolitan species. Unlike most other centipedes, house centipedes have quite good eyesight, and can hunt […]
5978 My name is Luke. Location: Kelowna, BC. At a home surrounded by fur and pine trees, the argentine ants have taken over the area and foraging at all these trees. They are coming down from the tee with this creature in their mouth. I think it’s an adelgid, but I’m not a pro, and […]
5983 I found my son playing with this insect in the school’s playground sandbox. It is really big, at least 3″ long. Found in Trenton, Ontario end April. What is it and does it bite? Thanks! This is a giant water bug (Hemiptera/Heteroptera: Belostomatidae); likely in the genus Lethocerus. These are general predators on other aquatic life […]
5969 Hi, thank you for this great site. I noticed this little critter in the bathroom sink of our clean, 3rd floor apartment in Winnipeg about a month after moving in. I’ve never seen something like this in our old house, and was wondering if this was a baby cockroach, silverfish, or something else? If […]
5973 Hi there, I reside in the city of Coquitlam, in the province of British Columbia, Canada. I own a larger house, approximately 5 years old and just in the last 2 months, found these little guys on the window curtains and bed sheets. They are quite small (3.5 to 4 mm) and I’ve never found […]
5979 Hi there, I was hoping you could help me identify these bugs I found congregating around the deck in our backyard. I live in East York, Ontario and only noticed these yesterday. These are ants, the black ones are males and the larger brown one is a female. I am unsure as to the species, […]
5968 Dear Sirs, My name is Mellissa and I live in Jamaica. A cemetery is nearby and the house is in between two open lots with mostly shrubs. Our yard has grass and some fruit trees. We also use soak-away pits/cesspools that allow water to absorbed into the earth. There is also a shed in […]
5974 Geographical Location: Markham, ON. Bug was collected in the kitchen. Over the last month or so, we have been waking up to them of varying sizes between 0.5 cm to 2 cm (this one was about 1.5 cm) in length, not including their antennae. They are typically crawling on the kitchen counter (granite) but can […]
5967 Please, please help me identify these bugs [Beetles ? ] that I am finding in my house. I live North of Toronto in Stouffville Ontario. It is early April and I have been finding them in all different places. Such as walls, floors, countertops etc., I have attached pictures. I should mention that they are […]
5981 Hello, I was lying in bed when I felt something tickling and moving along the side of my belly. The attached pictures are of what I am hoping is just a beetle. The insect is tiny, approximately 3 mm long. I flipped it on its back for one of the pictures. I live in […]
5984 Hi, I’m writing in relation to a dead bug I found in my bedroom that is about 1 inch in size. I can’t tell what it is… Many thanks, Jessica This appears to be a nymph of an Australian cockroach, Periplaneta australasiae (Blattodea: Blattidae). See http://tinyurl.com/ka4ltgr for details on its life history as well as some […]