5976 Hi, We found this in Harrison Hot Springs, BC, Canada in April. It was in a wet cave on the ceiling with dozens of other ones. The cave was in a forest at about 120m elevation. The largest had bodies about 2-3 inches long. John This is a cave/camel cricket (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae); they commonly are […]
5971 These bugs appeared today in the thousands on our deck and screen door. Temperature here today reached 18C. Very small about 3 or 4mm. Hope you can identify them. Our location is Campbellford, Ontario and we are on the Trent River. This is a non-biting midge (Diptera: Chironomidae)l see http://tinyurl.com/mpx96u3 for an image. These […]
5970 I reside in the Roodepoort area in Gauteng Province of South Africa and I wondered if you can shed some light on the subject of this kind of fly, it is not one of the more common flies in our area. It is late Autumn 10 April 2017 so it is not yet cold. […]
5972 My name is Wendy. I live in Montreal and this bug was on my newly carpeted stairs inside my house. It was fairly large, about 3/4 of an inch. This appears to be a nymph of Reduvius personatus, a peridomestic species of assassin bug (Hemiptera/Heteroptera: Reduviidae) known as the masked hunter. These are reported […]
5977 My name – Debbie. These bugs are showing up in the Spring time on the outside of the house. I am located in Grand Forks, BC Canada This is a stonefly (order Plecoptera). Their larvae form an important part of the freshwater food web; see http://tinyurl.com/h84682mfor detailed information. Ed Saugstad, retired entomologist; Sinks Grove, WV.
5975 Hi, thanks for the great site. We had this little visitor crawling out from under the cabinet in our bathroom on the second floor of our home in Calgary, Alberta on the 14th of April. We have had some great spring weather leading up to this week, but it has turned cold (complete with […]
6000 Hi, I was finally able to get a good picture of the bugs that were in the rental we moved into . You mentioned that they were most likely weevils but the pics were blurry … would you mind looking at this pic and , if possible , narrowing down the type ?? Thanks again for […]
5990 Is this a baby bed bug? This is an aphid, aka ‘plant louse’ (Hemiptera/Sternorrhyncha: Aphididae). All aphids are sap feeders, and some can be serious garden/agricultural pests. Ed Saugstad, retired entomologist; Sinks Grove, WV.
5994 Hey just wondering what kind of beetle this is. Found it under the bathroom sink with about 15 more. Lots of sawdust and wood around them. I looked on the site to see if it was posted and couldn’t find one like it. This is a larder beetle, Dermestes lardarius (Coleoptera: Dermestidae), a peridomestic […]
5991 Found this little guy dead in my kitchen any idea what it is? Thanks kind regards, Rhys Jonah This is a cockroach, but it does not appear to be any of the common peridomestic pest species. Knowing your geographic rea would help on pinning it down. Ed Saugstad, retired entomologist; Sinks Grove, WV.
5986 Good afternoon, My name is Rebeca and we leave in London , Ontario. Yesterday morning, we noticed our driveway infested with these larvae. Could you please help us to identify them? They are around 0.6 inches long. Thanks. These look like larvae of a crane fly (Diptera: Tipulidae); see http://tinyurl.com/mz8ad2m for an example. These usually […]
5987 Hi there, I am Mel who lives in Vancouver, BC. I have attached a photo of a bug for identification. The bug’s are located inside the basement, on the west facing window sills. The bugs were noticed in January 2017 and they are still in the basement. There has been more rain than usual and the […]
5989 Found this today in the Belleville area! What is it?!? Jenn This appears to be a larva of a firefly (Coleoptera: Lampyridae); see http://tinyurl.com/lv3whqt for an image. They are general predators on other small arthropods, mainly other insects. Ed Saugstad, retired entomologist; Sinks Grove, WV.
5988 These little bugs showed up in our Kitchen late last summer 2016. They are mainly in the kitchen cupboards and often migrate to the south facing windows. They disappeared once the cold weather come around even though they are in the house. In the middle of April 2017 they started showing up again. I would […]
6001 Hi. This picture was taken on a friend’s farm near Endeavour, Saskatchewan almost 10 years ago. At the time nobody could identify it. It was found in a recently planted sea buckthorn windbreak row. Never saw one before or since. This guy was kept by the children and fed sea buckthorn leaves until he […]
5993 Good Morning. I went for a walk in some grassland with a few trees here and there, not far from a beachy area on Lake Ontario and since then have found several of the bugs that you can see in the attached photo. They don’t bite or anything but seem to hook themselves on to your skin […]