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Indian Meal Moth (Cocoon/Larva)

Plodia interpunctella

Household Casebearer (often confused with Plaster Bagworm)

Phereoeca uterella (or species in the similar Tineidae family)

Household Casebearer (often specifically the Plaster Bagworm or Phereoeca uterella)

Phereoeca uterella

Miller Moth (often synonymous with Army Cutworm moth)

Euxoa auxiliaris (most common species referred to as Miller Moth)

Unidentifiable Debris / Dried Plant Matter / Scab

N/A

Dried Scab / Dead Skin Flake

Stratum corneum (not an insect)

Varied Carpet Beetle (Larva)

Anthrenus verbasci

Carpet Beetle Larva

Anthrenus verbasci

Skin Flake or Debris (Not an Insect)

Desquamated Corneocytes

Not a Bug (Likely Fiber/Debris or Skin Flake)

N/A

Silverfish

Lepisma saccharina

Cellar Spider (often called Daddy Longlegs)

Pholcus phalangioides

Drain Fly (also known as Moth Fly, Sewer Fly, or Filter Fly)

Psychodidae family (Common species: Clogmia albipunctata)

Not an insect (Appears to be Earwax or Resin)

Cerumen (if earwax) or Pinus/synthetic resin

Tonsil Stone (Tonsillolith)

Tonsillolith

Mealybug

Pseudococcidae (Family)

Sebum Plug (often mistaken for a parasite or lice egg)

Keratin plug / Sebaceous filament

Indian Meal Moth Larva

Plodia interpunctella

Flea Larva

Ctenocephalides felis (or C. canis)

Not a bug (Earwax / Cerumen)

Cerumen

Tonsil Stone (Tonsillolith)

Tonsillolith

Case-bearing clothes moth

Tinea pellionella

Blood Stain (Not an insect)

N/A

Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

Halyomorpha halys

Masked Hunter Nymph

Reduvius personatus

Mealybug

Pseudococcidae (Family)

Silverfish

Lepisma saccharina

Bird Dropping Spider (Common misnomer for Bolas Spiders or Bird Dung Crab Spiders)

Phrynarachne spp. (Crab spiders) or Mastophora spp. (Bolas Spiders)

Carpet Beetle (specifically likely the Varied Carpet Beetle)

Anthrenus verbasci

Case-bearing Clothes Moth (larva/case)

Tinea pellionella

Fruit fly

Drosophila melanogaster

Lesser Mealworm (Darkling Beetle)

Alphitobius diaperinus

Louse

Phthiraptera (likely Pediculus humanus capitis)

Itch mite (Scabies mite)

Sarcoptes scabiei

Human Itch Mite

Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis

Pinworm

Enterobius vermicularis

Ghost Ant

Tapinoma melanocephalum

Pinworm (Threadworm)

Enterobius vermicularis

Itch mite (Scabies mite)

Sarcoptes scabiei

Booklouse (or Psocid)

Liposcelis spp.

Skin Flake / Dried Skin / Sebum (Not an insect)

N/A (Biological debris)

Whirligig Mite (or Anystid Mite)

Anystis baccarum (most common)