Masked Hunter Nymph (Dust Bug)

Often found indoors in dusty corners, attics, basements, or underneath furniture; outdoors they inhabit dry locations like woodpiles or barns.

Carnivorous predators; they feed on other small arthropods including bed bugs, earwigs, silverfish, and termites.

Nymphs have a sticky exoskeleton and actively cover themselves with dust, lint, and sand as camouflage (hence the name 'Masked Hunter'). They are stealthy ambush predators.

Benefits: Effective pest control as they eat household pests. Risks: Generally non-aggressive to humans, but can inflict a very painful (though medically insignificant) bite if handled or threatened.