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Explore insects and bugs recently identified by our AI-powered field guide.
Likely flea
Order Siphonaptera; species cannot be determined from the photo
Seed bug (likely a broad-headed bug)
Alydidae, likely *Leptocorisa* sp.
Backswimmer
Likely *Notonecta* species
Likely a bagworm moth (case-bearing moth)
Likely Psychidae; species cannot be determined from the image
Unidentifiable from the photo
Undetermined
Likely bed bug nymph
Cimex lectularius
Springtail
Order Collembola (species undetermined)
Bumblebee
Bombus sp.
Fishing spider (likely)
Dolomedes sp.
Hard tick (likely a female blacklegged/deer tick)
Ixodes sp.; species cannot be confirmed from the photo
Bed bug
Cimex lectularius (likely)
Unidentifiable from the photo; appears to be a crushed or smeared insect
Undetermined
Assassin bug (likely a thread-legged assassin bug)
Reduviidae; exact species cannot be reliably identified from the image
Varied carpet beetle (likely)
Anthrenus verbasci
Unclear; possibly a small moth pupa or debris
Not identifiable from the image
Barklouse (booklouse)
Psocoptera (likely a barklouse; exact species unclear)
Carpet beetle larva
Anthrenus sp.
Assassin bug
Reduvius personatus
Common house spider (likely)
Parasteatoda tepidariorum
Cockroach nymph (young cockroach)
Blattodea; species cannot be determined from the photo
Cockroach nymph (likely a small household cockroach)
Blattodea; species not identifiable from the image
Likely tick larva (“seed tick”)
Unidentified; possibly a hard tick (family Ixodidae)
Woodlouse (sowbug)
Likely *Oniscus asellus*
Small moth fly (drain fly)
Psychodidae, likely a species of *Clogmia*
Ground spider (likely a ground-dwelling house spider)
Gnaphosidae, genus and species uncertain
Camel cricket (cave cricket)
Rhaphidophoridae; species not identifiable from the photo
Differential grasshopper
Melanoplus differentialis
Green bottle fly
Likely *Lucilia* species (possibly *Lucilia sericata*)
Large yellow underwing caterpillar (cutworm)
Noctua pronuba
Ant (likely a field or pavement ant)
Formicidae; species cannot be determined from the image
Spotted cucumber beetle (likely western spotted cucumber beetle)
Diabrotica undecimpunctata
Western conifer seed bug
Leptoglossus occidentalis
Brown marmorated stink bug
Halyomorpha halys
Yellow woolly bear caterpillar (yellow tiger moth caterpillar)
Spilosoma virginica
Cellar spider (daddy-longlegs spider)
Pholcus phalangioides
Cellar spider (long-bodied cellar spider)
Pholcus phalangioides
Carpenter ant
Camponotus sp.
Carpenter ant
Camponotus sp.
False widow spider
Steatoda sp. (likely Steatoda grossa)
Winged termite (alate)
Termitoidae (species unclear from image)
Stink bug (likely a brown stink bug)
Pentatomidae; exact species unclear from the photo
Katydid (bush-cricket)
Tettigoniidae, species undetermined
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