Masked Hunter Nymph (often mistaken for lint or dust)

Typically found indoors in dusty corners, attics, and basements. Outdoors, they live in dry, sheltered areas like woodpiles or barns.

Strictly confusion predators; they feed on other household arthropods including bed bugs, silverfish, woodlice, spider beetles, and earwigs.

Nymphs secrete a sticky substance that covers their body, allowing dust, sand, and lint to adhere to them as a form of camouflage (hence the 'masked' name). They are nocturnal ambush predators.

Generally beneficial as they eat household pests. However, if handled or threatened, they can inflict a very painful bite, similar to a bee sting. They do not feed on human blood or transmit diseases.