Masked Hunter Nymph

Often found indoors in dusty attics, basements, and crawlspaces, or outdoors in rocky crevices and woodpiles.

Carnivorous predator; they feed on other insects such as bed bugs, earwigs, silverfish, and spiders.

Nymphs possess a sticky coating on their bodies that accumulates dust, lint, and sand, effectively camouflaging them as balls of dust to ambush prey. They are solitary hunters.

Generally beneficial as they eat household pests like bed bugs. However, if handled or provoked, they can inflict a very painful bite, though it is not venomous or medically significant to humans.