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Darkling beetle (likely a sand beetle)
Unknown species; possibly *Phaleria* sp. (tentative)
Unidentified dark beetle (likely a ground beetle)
Carabidae, species undetermined
Rove beetle (likely a devil’s coach horse)
Ocypus olens
Carpet beetle larva (likely varied carpet beetle)
Anthrenus verbasci
Springtail (likely)
Collembola, unidentified species
Springtail (likely globular springtail)
Collembola; likely family Sminthuridae
Unclear; likely a small springtail or soil arthropod
Collembola, unidentified species
Possibly a fungus gnat larva or small soil-dwelling fly larva
Uncertain; possibly Sciaridae
Cellar spider (daddy longlegs)
Pholcus phalangioides
Cellar spider (daddy longlegs spider)
Pholcus phalangioides
Common house spider (likely)
Parasteatoda tepidariorum
Case-bearing clothes moth larva (probable)
Tinea pellionella
Ambush bug (likely a flower-bug nymph)
Phymata sp.
Spider beetle
Gibbium sp.
Brown-banded cockroach (likely)
Supella longipalpa
Small ant-like cobweb spider (likely a cellar spider juvenile)
Likely Pholcus sp.
Small crab spider (probable)
Thomisidae, likely Misumena or Misumenoides species
Small cockroach nymph (likely German cockroach)
Blattella germanica
Carpet beetle larva (likely)
Anthrenus sp.
Bed bug (likely, with shed skins and fecal spotting)
Cimex lectularius
Varied carpet beetle (likely larvae and adults)
Anthrenus verbasci
Tick (likely an engorged hard tick)
Family Ixodidae; species cannot be determined reliably from this image
Black widow spider (likely)
Latrodectus spp., possibly Latrodectus hesperus
Barklouse (booklouse)
Likely a psocid, possibly *Liposcelis* species
Carpet beetle larva (likely varied carpet beetle)
Anthrenus verbasci
Flea beetle (likely)
Alticini sp. (genus/species uncertain)
Red velvet mite (likely a trombid mite)
Trombidium sp. (identification from the image is approximate)
German cockroach nymph
Blattella germanica
Carpet beetle larva
Likely Anthrenus spp. (exact species cannot be confirmed from this photo)
Ant (possibly a small black ant)
Formicidae sp.
Unidentified small spider (likely a jumping spider)
Family Salticidae, genus/species undetermined
Small ground beetle (likely a rove beetle)
Uncertain from the image; likely a staphylinid beetle (Staphylinidae)
Ant (likely pavement or garden ant)
Formicidae; species indeterminate from the image
Not identifiable
Undetermined from the image
No identifiable insect visible
Not determinable from the image
Varied carpet beetle
Anthrenus verbasci
Varied carpet beetle (likely larva or shed skin)
Anthrenus verbasci
Small fly (likely fungus gnat)
Diptera; likely Sciaridae, species uncertain
Carpet beetle (likely varied carpet beetle)
Anthrenus verbasci
Small engrailed moth
Ectropis crepuscularia
Katydid (bush cricket)
Likely *Phaneroptera* species (exact species cannot be confirmed from the image)
Crab spider
Misumena vatia (likely)
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