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Katydid (likely a conehead katydid)
Neoconocephalus sp.
Velvet ant (likely cow killer)
Mutillidae, likely Dasymutilla species
Velvet ant (wingless female wasp)
Likely Dasymutilla sp.
Wheel bug (likely)
Arilus cristatus
Yellowjacket (paper wasp type)
Polistes sp. (likely a paper wasp)
No identifiable insect visible
Not applicable
Carpet beetle (adult), likely a varied carpet beetle
Anthrenus verbasci
Winged aphid (plant louse)
Aphididae, species uncertain
Flea beetles (likely)
Alticini, possibly *Phyllotreta* or *Epitrix* species
Likely adult carpet beetle (black carpet beetle type)
Likely *Attagenus* sp.; exact species cannot be confirmed from this image
Unidentified small spider (likely house spider)
Araneae; species indeterminate from the image
Not identifiable from the image; likely an insect bite or skin irritation
Undetermined
Unidentified biting insect; possibly bed bug
Cimex lectularius (tentative)
Unidentified insect bite or skin irritation
Not determinable from the image
White-marked tussock moth caterpillar (likely)
Orgyia leucostigma
No insect visible
Not applicable
No insect visible
Not applicable
Woodlouse (pill bug/sowbug)
Likely Porcellio scaber
Masked hunter (likely nymph)
Reduvius personatus
Silverfish (likely firebrat-type bristletail)
Ctenolepisma longicaudata (probable)
Longhorned ground beetle (likely a flat-headed wood-borer beetle)
Likely *Callidiellum* or a related Cerambycidae genus; species cannot be confirmed from this image
Likely cigarette beetle
Lasioderma serricorne
Termite (likely a worker or nymph)
Undetermined; likely *Reticulitermes* or another subterranean termite
Cockroach nymph (likely wood cockroach)
Likely Parcoblatta species; exact identification is uncertain from the blurred image
Orb-weaver spider (likely a garden orb-weaver)
Araneidae sp. (species uncertain from image)
Small crab spider (likely flower crab spider)
Misumena or Misumenoides species (exact species unclear from image)
Unidentifiable tiny dark beetle or gnat
Not determinable from the image
Flea beetle (likely a young or damaged adult)
Alticini sp. (genus uncertain)
Cockroach nymph, likely German cockroach
Blattella germanica
Bee fly
Bombylius major
Drain fly (moth fly)
Psychodidae; likely Clogmia albipunctata
Orb-weaver spider (likely cross orb-weaver)
Araneus diadematus (probable)
Harvestman (daddy longlegs)
Order Opiliones; species uncertain from image
Small cockroach nymph (likely German cockroach)
Blattella germanica
Unidentifiable from the image
Not determinable
No identifiable insect; likely a spider web strand
Undetermined from the image
Unidentified small dark insect
Not determinable from the image
Cellar spider (likely long-bodied cellar spider)
Pholcus phalangioides
Springtails
Collembola (likely Entomobryidae or Sminthuridae)
Long-jawed orb-weaver (probable)
Tetragnatha sp.
Case-bearing clothes moth larva (likely)
Tinea pellionella
Long-bodied cellar spider (probable)
Pholcus phalangioides
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