5635 This bug was found crawling across the floor of my living room. I live in the rural area of Osoyoos, BC. The weather today is cloudy and 10 C. The insect is a 1/2 inch in length. Would appear it has 6 legs and no antennae that I can see. The back appears to […]
5634 Please help me identify this insect. I found it in my house Kitchen floor and on walls. They only show up one or two at a time. Location: Waterford, CT. Thank you, Joyce This is a long-horned wood-boring beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae); it looks like a Megacyllene sp. (locust borer and allies). They will not […]
5642 I live in Edenglen, which is very near to Johannesburg, South Africa. We are nearing the end of our summer season. This was photographed yesterday. I have a bush in my garden that is now has hundreds of these bugs (pic attached) all over it. I have never seen them before and I am […]
#5633 Hello, Hoping to identify this bug please. caught April 1, 2016 at dusk (about 8:30pm) west edge of Calgary, Ab. Canadian quarter for scale. Cat caught it in garden mulch near coniferous trees. Thank you, Carol This is a predaceous diving beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae); likely in the genus Dytiscus. These beetles (and their larvae, ‘water […]
5644 hi there we have found a bug on our wall and just a day or two before we have found this bug we have been getting some sorts of hives on our skin like mosquitoes they itch once in a while. We saw a doctor and he didnt know what it was than today […]
5636 My name is Andrea Moretz. These are very tiny bugs that are on my sun lamp shade. The other picture is a picture of the what I assume is eggs also on the lampshade there are two clusters about the same size. The bug is so tiny I would say it’s smaller than the size […]
#5475 This was found on my laundry room floor in Boulder Colorado just now. It’s a little over an inch long, dark brown and ringed, with a yellowish “nose.” It’s creeping very slowly. What the heck is this? This is a mature larva/prepupa of a rodent bot fly (Diptera: Cuterebridae; Cuterebra sp.) – see http://tinyurl.com/naggfdc […]
5637 My name is Michael. I live in Long Island New York. I Have many of these bugs in my house. They started appearing in September 2015. They jump really high. They are about one inch long. Help..What is it and how do I get rid of them. This is a camel/cave cricket (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae). These […]
5645 My name is Charlotte. This bug was found in Vanderhoof British Columbia. I found this bug in my bathroom where swallows have gotten in and built a nest in the fan ducting above. They might be gone now as I can’t hear them. This is a weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae); it looks like a member […]
5641 The attached was photographed off the west coast of Mexico in December 2015. Can you help with identification? Thanks, Howard This is a sphinx moth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), but it has lost too many scales to be confident of a specific identification. Ed Saugstad, retired entomologist; Sinks Grove, WV.
5643 Pls see photos attached. I live just outside of Vancouver ,in the Lower Mainland. The other day, I found a dead bug in the corner of my son’s bed, in between the sheet and mattress cover. It looks like it has been dead for some time. I am worried sick that it is a bed […]
5657 Hi my name is Matthias. Last few weeks a lot of these guys have popped up in my house. I live in Brampton Ontario Canada. They’re mainly on my ceiling and high up on my walls, they fly and are 2-4mm when we get a closer look they tuck their feet in and dont […]
5647 Hi. I found this guy on my car. It was a warm day at the beginning of April in Gibsons, BC. Thanks! This is a male mayfly (order Ephemeroptera); it may be a subimago, the stage that emerges from the nymphal exoskeleton and flies to a (hopefully) safe location where it sheds its ‘skin’ […]
5650 Found most times in the bathroom once a week in March & now April. Last time found in the fridge. Some times relatively mild outside. Fred Jones This looks like a black vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus, a broad-nosed /short-snouted weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae; subfamily Entiminae); see http://tinyurl.com/jrj5oeh for an image. These weevils often enter buildings […]
5649 Hi there, I have these bugs walking all over my front deck. Just wondering if I should be worried about a nest or about having them around. I am in Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC and it is mid-April. Thanks very much! Irene This is a long-horned wood-boring beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae); it looks like Hybodera tuberculata, a […]
5646 South of Indianapolis, LOOKS LIKE LADY BUG BUT BODY IS ELONGATED. FOUND IN FLOWER GARDEN, March 2016 ML These are indeed lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae); specifically, they are Coleomegilla maculata, known as the spotted lady beetle – see http://tinyurl.com/glf33x3 for an image. I often see these in our vegetable garden.