Not a Bug (Likely Earwax or Resin)

Propolis or Cerumen (if organic in nature)

Earwax (Cerumen) or Dried Plant Material

Not Applicable

Not a Bug (Likely Dried Skin Flake or Earwax)

Not Applicable

Ghost ant

Tapinoma melanocephalum

Fruit Fly

Drosophila melanogaster

No insect identified

None

Ghost ant

Tapinoma melanocephalum

Flea Tapeworm Segment (Proglottid)

Dipylidium caninum

Not a Bug (Inanimate Object / Mineral)

N/A (Likely Silicon Dioxide or similar mineral fragment)

Mold Mite

Tyrophagus putrescentiae

Carpet Beetle (Larva or Adult)

Anthrenus verbasci (Varied Carpet Beetle) or Attagenus unicolor (Black Carpet Beetle)

Pubic Louse (Crab Louse)

Pthirus pubis

None (Debris/Lint)

N/A

Case-bearing Clothes Moth (Larva/Case)

Tinea pellionella

Not a Bug (Skin Flake or Debris)

N/A

Booklouse (Psocid)

Liposcelis spp. (Commonly Liposcelis bostrychophila)

Silverfish

Lepisma saccharinum

Silverfish

Lepisma saccharinum

Drain Fly (also known as Moth Fly, Sink Fly, or Sewer Gnat)

Clogmia albipunctata (most common species) or Psychoda spp.

Not a bug (likely a skin flake, scab, or dried secretion)

N/A

Silverfish (specifically a young nymph or scale)

Lepisma saccharina

Silverfish

Lepisma saccharinum

Springtail

Collembola (Class)

Not a Bug / Identification Failed

N/A

Unidentified Object on Fabric (Not an Insect)

N/A

Booklouse (or Psocid)

Order Psocoptera (Liposcelis spp. is common indoors)

Plaster Bagworm (larval case)

Phereoeca uterella

German Cockroach

Blattella germanica

Not a bug (likely skin flake, scab, or dried debris)

N/A

Carpet Beetle (likely Varied Carpet Beetle)

Anthrenus verbasci

Household Casebearer or Plaster Bagworm

Phereoeca uterella (or related species like Phereoeca allutella)

Drain Fly Larva (sometimes mistaken for a tiny millipede or moth larva)

Psychodidae (Family) - specifically the larval stage

Bed Bug (Nymph)

Cimex lectularius

Unknown / Unidentifiable Object

N/A

Unidentifiable Object/Insect

N/A

Hard Tick (most likely a Dog Tick or Wood Tick)

Dermacentor or Ixodes species (e.g., Dermacentor variabilis)

Lacewing Larva (commonly called 'Junk Bug' or 'Aphid Lion')

Chrysopidae (Family)

Body Louse

Pediculus humanus humanus

Varied Carpet Beetle

Anthrenus verbasci

Earwax (Cerumen) on Tissue/Fiber

Not Applicable (Biological Substance)

Tapeworm Segment (Proglottid)

Dipylidium caninum (most common species found in pets/homes)

Sebaceous Filament / Skin Debris (Not an Insect)

Keratin and Sebum plug