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Recent Bug Identifications

Explore insects and bugs recently identified by our AI-powered field guide.

Rough woodlouse

Porcellio scaber

Woodlouse

Porcellio scaber

Pubic louse

Pthirus pubis

Pubic louse

Pthirus pubis

Not a bug

N/A

Lone Star Tick (larva)

Amblyomma americanum

Cabinet beetle or carpet beetle larvae

Trogoderma spp. or Anthrenus spp.

Paper wasp

Polistes dominula

Termite

Isoptera

The provided image displays glitter, dust, or dandruff on a dark fabric surface rather than any biological insect or bug...

Not applicable as no organism is present in the image.

Carpet beetle larva

Anthrenus verbasci

Case-bearing clothes moth larva

Tinea pellionella

White-fringed beetle

Graphognathus leucoloma

Brown Recluse Spider

Loxosceles reclusa

Threadworm

Enterobius vermicularis

Bed bug

Cimex lectularius

Broad-nosed Weevil

Curculionidae family

Fruit fly

Drosophila melanogaster

German cockroach

Blattella germanica

House fly

Musca domestica

Bed bug

Cimex lectularius

Wolf Spider

Lycosidae family

Brown Recluse Spider

Loxosceles reclusa

Booklouse

Liposcelis bostrychophila

Mealybug destroyer

Cryptolaemus montrouzieri

Alate (Winged Ant)

Formicidae (family)

Formosan subterranean termite alate

Coptotermes formosanus

Insufficient visual data

Unknown

Horned Passalus Beetle

Odontotaenius disjunctus

Hentz Orbweaver

Neoscona crucifera

Cabbage looper

Trichoplusia ni

Orange Dog Caterpillar

Papilio cresphontes

Cabbage looper

Trichoplusia ni

Dust Mite

Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus

Dust mite

Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus

Masked Hunter (nymph stage)

Reduvius personatus

Unable to identify

Unknown

Unable to identify

Unknown

Unable to identify

Unknown

Booklouse

Liposcelis bostrychophila

Pharaoh ant

Monomorium pharaonis

Carpet beetle

Anthrenus verbasci

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