Identify Any Bug in Seconds

Snow Flea

Hypogastrura nivicola

Not a bug (Debris/Fragment)

N/A

Slime Mold (specifically likely a plasmodium stage, often mistaken for an insect or egg mass)

Myxomycetes (Class)

Pharaoh Ant (a piece of debris, possibly a wing, or more likely a flake of skin/shell or a seed, but visually appears to...

Monomorium pharaonis (If identified as Pharaoh Ant parts)

Drugstore Beetle

Stegobium paniceum

Unknown/Debris (Cannot confidently identify as an insect)

N/A

Not a bug (Dried biological dermis/secretion or debris)

N/A

Yellowjacket

Vespula or Dolichovespula genus

Field Cricket

Gryllus spp.

Walking stick

Diapheromera femorata

Clover Mite

Bryobia praetiosa

Dust Mite

Dermatophagoides spp. (e.g., Dermatophagoides farinae or Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus)

Silverfish

Lepisma saccharina

Thrips

Thysanoptera

Green Lacewing Larva (often called "Trash Bug", "Junk Bug", or "Debris-carrying Lacewing Larva")

Chrysopa spp. or Ceraeochrysa spp. (Family Chrysopidae)

Tapeworm Segment (Proglottid)

Dipylidium caninum (most common species in pets)

Lint / Dust Mite (Misidentification likely)

N/A (Inanimate object) or Dermatophagoides spp. (if microscopic analysis confirms)

Booklouse (or Psocid)

Liposcelis spp. (Commonly)

Carpet Beetle Larva

Anthrenus verbasci (commonly varied carpet beetle)

Silverfish

Lepisma saccharinum

Body Louse or Head Louse Nymph (likely)

Pediculus humanus humanus (Body Louse) or Pediculus humanus capitis (Head Louse)

Tapeworm Segment (Proglottid)

Dipylidium caninum (most common species found indoors via pets)

Ice Worm

Mesenchytraeus solifugus

Silverfish

Lepisma saccharinum

Springtail

Collembola (Class or Subclass)

Skin Flakes / Dandruff (Not an insect)

Squamae (Dead skin cells)

Carpet Beetle (likely Varied Carpet Beetle)

Anthrenus verbasci

Bird Mite (Likely Tropical Fowl Mite or Northern Fowl Mite)

Ornithonyssus spp. (e.g., Ornithonyssus bursa or Ornithonyssus sylviarum)

Woolly Aphid

Eriosomatinae (Subfamily)

Pubic Louse (Crab Louse)

Pthirus pubis

Household Casebearer (often the Plaster Bagworm or a generic Clothes Moth larva case)

Phereoeca uterella (or similar Tineidae species)

Dry Skin Flake / Not an Insect

N/A (Desquamated Epithelium)

Lint / Dust Bunny

N/A (Inanimate matter)

Woolly Aphid

Eriosomatinae (Subfamily)

Unidentifiable Debris / Lint / Artifact (Not a discernible insect)

N/A

Clothing Moth Larva (specifically the Case-bearing Clothes Moth)

Tinea pellionella

Household Casebearer (often misidentified as a lint mite or debris)

Phereoeca uterella or Phereoeca allutella

Dust Mite

Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (or Dermatophagoides farinae)

Subterranean Termite Alate (Swamer)

Reticulitermes flavipes

Bloodworm (Non-biting midge larva)

Chironomus plumosus

Unidentifiable Object/Debris (Not an Insect)

N/A

Carpet Beetle (Larva) - likely Varied Carpet Beetle

Anthrenus verbasci