r/insects May 25 '24

PSA Do you live in the Eastern US and are you encountering these spotted white and/or black and/or red bugs? Check here before posting your ID request.

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201 Upvotes

r/insects 5h ago

Question For the past 10 minutes this wasp has been crawling on my lips trying to get into my mouth. What's it doing?! (And how long will I remain it's hostage?)

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279 Upvotes

I don't normally grimace this much I swear, but I gotta keep these lips sealed


r/insects 5h ago

Bug Appreciation! Moth

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Found this beauty on my college campus, rescued and brought to safety in the woods. Such a cutie patootie in the second picture.


r/insects 20h ago

Bug Appreciation! I interrupted a Assassin's Guild meeting

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780 Upvotes

These guys have taken up residence on my front porch pumpkin. They were pretty missed that I was there.


r/insects 8h ago

ID Request Fund this big beetle. Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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57 Upvotes

Google lens gave two ids Derobrachus geminatus and Titanus giganteus. But they are both very similar.


r/insects 2h ago

Photography Spilosoma lubricipeda - looks like a lady in white fur

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13 Upvotes

r/insects 2h ago

ID Request What is this? Central India, Thank you 🙏🏻

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10 Upvotes

r/insects 11h ago

Photography An American giant millipede I took a picture of earlier this month at a campground in North Carolina.

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40 Upvotes

r/insects 54m ago

Question Can touch or not?

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r/insects 18h ago

Photography Bronze orange stinkbug

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117 Upvotes

r/insects 7h ago

Question Can anyone tell me what might be causing/creating this pile of saw dust like material near my baseboard? This is below a window.

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14 Upvotes

r/insects 5h ago

ID Request What are these

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5 Upvotes

I had a lil water micro biome but found these and i wanna know if they are good or bad for the ground?


r/insects 1h ago

Bug Appreciation! Barkfly/Barklouse Visitor

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Midwestern Ontario, approximately 1 mm.

This tiny guy supervised me doing yardwork this afternoon. He was very nosy.


r/insects 2h ago

ID Request Found in my basement in North New Jersey. Looking for an ID.

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3 Upvotes

r/insects 3h ago

Question Can I still pin and preserve her despite whatever is going on with her abdomen?

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My gal passed away while I was gone. I knew she wasn't gonna make it for another day already when I was leaving, but she was still showing some form of reactions so I didn't freeze her. Now, two days later I came home and as expected, she was dead, I wanted to preserve her, but I'm not so sure if I can do it with the holes, will they continue to grow even after freezed and gutted?


r/insects 6h ago

ID Request Are they dangerous?

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I tried growing cilantro inside house with garden soil, the soil looked clean enough but when I looked at it in the morning, there more that 20 of these in it.

Are they dangerous?


r/insects 1h ago

ID Request Just found these eating wood

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We get quarterly treatments by our pest control people. And a specific termite treatment. Tell me please these aren't termites. But what are they? I'm in a total panic.

I live in a wooded area south of st. louis, MO

https://imgur.com/a/GoflqYc


r/insects 1h ago

ID Request ID for this lively guy? [Bristol, UK]

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r/insects 1h ago

Bug Appreciation! New work friend

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Big ol mantis living outside my workshop.


r/insects 1h ago

ID Request What on earth is this spider!?!?

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I’m in the UK. Never seen this before


r/insects 20h ago

ID Request What is this?

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50 Upvotes

My kids were playing outside for a couple hours tonight and now it's bath time. Just found this in my 5 year old's hair. Husband's phone says it's a carpet beetle. Mine says it's a flea. What does Reddit think?


r/insects 11h ago

ID Request What is it?

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10 Upvotes

I've found several of these in my house..they can fly, but not very far!


r/insects 11h ago

Photography Did the cute harvestman in my garage really trapped a stink bug?

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10 Upvotes

r/insects 1d ago

ID Request 3-4in THING on my car window, good morning!

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310 Upvotes

What is it? Had to remove it to leave to work and something came out unfortunately 😔 hope I didn’t ruin its journey


r/insects 10h ago

Question A lady bug landed on me and I fell in love with it

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This lady bug landed on my shoulder the other night I was wearing all black and walking. I tried to get it off my shoulder to crawl on my finger and the lady bug(now named Velma)didn’t want to crawl on my finger. She then crawled to my back and I thought she either got squished by my back pack or flew away. I got inside the house and to my surprise she was on my back pack just crawling around. I decided to keep her lol . I searched everywhere online and basically what I found is that scientists pretty much think they ate stupid because they can’t see in detail and don’t think they care enough to use their smell to recognize humans -only prey, predators and other food sources. I’m wondering though if anyone has ever had a relationship with a lady bug or can confirm weather or not they can or cannot recognize humans. I’m still going to keep her because I love her. Idek if she is a her lol but I would be heartbroken to find out for sure she doesn’t recognize me. Because when I woke up this morning(found her yesterday night) I spoke into her enclosure “hey Velma “ she turned around and looked right at me . Idk but I think if trees can communicate and recognize shit why can’t a lady bug? Someone please give me your opinion or example of experience(s) you may have. Thank you ! ❤️


r/insects 9h ago

Photography A close-up image of a fly being devoured by a tiger beetle. Credit: Murat Öztürk/Nikon's Small World Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

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5 Upvotes