Identify Any Bug in Seconds

Varied carpet beetle (adult)

Anthrenus verbasci

Paper wasp

Polistes sp. (likely a paper wasp)

German cockroach nymph

Blattella germanica

Blue mud dauber (likely)

Chalybion californicum

Field cricket (likely a house or field cricket)

Gryllus sp. (identification uncertain from image)

No identifiable insect; likely an inflamed skin lesion or bite reaction

Not applicable from this image

Walnut caterpillar

Datana integerrima

Black-and-yellow garden spider (writing spider)

Argiope aurantia

Giant leopard moth caterpillar (woolly bear)

Hypercompe scribonia

Bombardier beetle

Brachinus species (likely Brachinus sp.)

Unidentified small biting insect (photo insufficient)

Cannot determine from image

Marine isopod (likely cirolanid isopod)

Likely Cirolana sp. (species uncertain from image)

Field cricket (likely a black field cricket)

Gryllus spp.

Booklouse (barklouse)

Likely Liposcelis spp.

Indeterminate—possibly a tiny mite or flea; image insufficient for reliable identification

Not determinable from the photograph

Seed bug (likely a dirt-covered plant bug)

Indeterminate from the photograph; likely a small true bug (Hemiptera)

Varied carpet beetle (likely larva)

Anthrenus verbasci

Household casebearer (plaster bagworm)

Phereoeca uterella

Lawn shrimp (land hopper)

Arcitalitrus sylvaticus

Varied carpet beetle (likely larval cast/fragment)

Anthrenus verbasci

Case-bearing clothes moth larva (likely)

Tineola bisselliella (larval case)

Unidentifiable moth-like insect (possibly a pantry moth)

Likely *Plodia interpunctella*, but the image is insufficient for confirmation

Case-bearing clothes moth (adult)

Tinea pellionella

Unidentified small insect (image insufficient for reliable identification)

Undetermined

Blue-black carpenter bee (likely)

Xylocopa sp., probably Xylocopa caerulea or a closely related species

Hercules beetle (likely female)

Dynastes hercules

Jerusalem cricket (likely)

Stenopelmatus species

House centipede

Scutigera coleoptrata

No bug visible; likely a small skin flake or residue

Not applicable

Leaf-footed bug (likely orange assassin bug)

Apiomerus sp.

Short-winged meadow grasshopper

Likely *Chorthippus curtipennis* (species-level identification is uncertain from the image)

Assassin bug (likely wheel bug nymph)

Arilus cristatus

Woodlouse (pill bug/roly-poly)

Likely *Armadillidium vulgare*

Shiny millipede (likely a flat-backed or cylindrical millipede)

Diplopoda; species cannot be determined reliably from this photograph

Bumblebee (likely a worker)

Bombus species

Land slug (likely a juvenile leatherleaf slug)

Likely *Veronicella* sp.; species-level identification requires location and clearer features

Caddisfly (likely a long-horned caddisfly)

Likely family Leptoceridae; exact species cannot be confirmed from the image

Earwig (likely European earwig)

Forficula auricularia

Common buckeye butterfly

Junonia coenia

Small tortoiseshell butterfly

Aglais urticae

White ermine moth

Spilosoma lubricipeda

Thrips (likely flower thrips)

Order-level identification only; likely *Frankliniella* or *Thrips* species