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Unidentifiable from the image
Not determinable
Barklouse (booklouse), likely a bark-dwelling psocid
Psocoptera (order-level identification; species cannot be determined from this image)
Broad-headed bug
Alydus sp. (likely Alydus eurinus or a related species)
Broad-nosed weevil (likely)
Curculionidae, genus/species uncertain
Unidentified beetle larva or pupa (image unclear)
Cannot be determined reliably from this photograph
Case-bearing clothes moth larva case (likely)
Tineola bisselliella
Bed bug (likely, possibly a shed/exuvia)
Cimex lectularius
Carpet beetle larva (likely varied carpet beetle)
Anthrenus verbasci
Common carpet beetle (adult)
Anthrenus scrophulariae
Jumping spider
Likely a small plexippine jumping spider (family-level identification only from this image)
Jumping spider (likely bold jumping spider)
Phidippus audax
Flea (tentative identification)
Siphonaptera; species cannot be determined from the image
Carpet beetle larva (likely varied carpet beetle)
Anthrenus verbasci
Carpet beetle larva (likely varied carpet beetle)
Anthrenus verbasci
Banana slug
Ariolimax sp.
Slug (likely a banana slug)
Ariolimax sp.
Orb-weaver spider
Araneus sp. (likely a related orb-weaver; species-level identification is uncertain from the image)
Likely silverfish (poor image)
Lepisma saccharinum
Bristletail (likely jumping bristletail)
Archaeognatha, likely *Pedetontus* species
Ground beetle (likely a seed/cereal ground beetle)
Harpalus sp. (likely Harpalus rufipes group)
White-marked tussock moth caterpillar
Orgyia leucostigma
Brown marmorated stink bug
Halyomorpha halys
Cross orb-weaver (garden orb-weaver)
Araneus diadematus
Western conifer seed bug
Leptoglossus occidentalis
Small dark beetle (likely a carpet beetle adult)
Anthrenus sp.
Ants (likely winged or dead worker ants)
Formicidae sp.
Carpet beetle larva (likely varied carpet beetle)
Anthrenus verbasci
False widow spider (likely noble false widow)
Steatoda nobilis
Likely booklouse (psocid)
Order Psocoptera; species indeterminate
Unidentified small household insect (likely springtail or booklouse)
Not determinable from the image
Varied carpet beetle larva (probable)
Anthrenus verbasci
Mud dauber nest (insect not visible)
Likely Sceliphron or Trypoxylon species
Earwig (likely European earwig)
Forficula auricularia
Rove beetle (likely a Paederus-type rove beetle)
Paederus sp. (identification from the image is tentative)
Common housefly
Musca domestica
Masked hunter (dead nymph)
Reduvius personatus
Darkling beetle (likely mealworm beetle)
Tenebrio molitor
Likely a silverfish (image unclear)
Lepisma saccharina
Likely silverfish
Lepisma saccharinum
Likely clothes moth larval case (case-bearing clothes moth)
Tinea pellionella
Carpet beetle larva (likely varied carpet beetle)
Anthrenus verbasci
Carpet beetle larva (likely)
Anthrenus sp. (identification uncertain from image)
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