Can you help me figure out what these small, black-and-red winged bugs in my house are, and whether they are something I should be concerned about?
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posted by devinemissk
on Apr 2, 2013 -
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Can you guess what's biting me?
I've been getting a few extremely itchy red bumps, very much like mosquito bites, but they are not mosquito bites because they follow the pattern that chigger bites do: they're not on exposed parts of my skin, but instead under my clothing. It seems that something small is leaping onto me and then crawling until it finds itself confined by clothing, then settling down to bite. The bites aren't like chigger bites, though.
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posted by artistic verisimilitude
on Mar 20, 2013 -
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Insect identification - what can you tell me about this flying beast? (good pic inside)
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posted by Listener
on Jul 28, 2012 -
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A saw a winged bug today, but don't know what it was. Can you help me identify this bug even though I have no foto, only a description?
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posted by Jehan
on May 30, 2012 -
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A few months ago, I began noticing tiny bugs in my place. They appear very sporadic - I may see one or two a week at best - but it's always the same kind. I'd like to see no bugs in my place at all, ideally.
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posted by MinusCelsius
on Apr 14, 2012 -
7 answers
a friend of mine is vacationing in central america, and saw
this odd thing. he thinks it's a moth mimicking a gecko. any ideas?
posted by camdan
on Mar 9, 2012 -
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What was this (now slightly squashed) black and red bug?
Back.
Underside. It appeared mysteriously today in our apartment, in NJ. It was almost 0.5 inch long.
posted by fings
on Jan 21, 2012 -
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Mystery bug bite filter: woke up with a bite on the back of my right knee two days ago. Can you help me ID it?
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posted by mrfuga0
on Nov 2, 2011 -
8 answers
I've had a lot of fruit flies in my kitchen this summer. It seems impossible to get rid of them, so i've just learned to live with them. But I've been watching them, and now I'm curious about their behaviour and lifecycle.
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posted by kamelhoecker
on Sep 8, 2011 -
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Last weekend in New York State, I got about 200 insect (ie, mosquito or fly? I don't know) bites on the same night. It's been 9 days and they're still bothering me- in fact, they're getting worse. What to do?
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posted by anonymous
on Aug 23, 2011 -
19 answers
We caught
this bug on my bed and I have a few questions...1) So this is a bed bug right?
Google images pretty much answered this question but I'm still hoping somebody's gonna say "no dude, it's something else, totally harmless!" But FYI, we
were bitten a few times several weeks ago and just assumed it was unusually persistent mosquitoes.
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posted by exhilaration
on Jul 30, 2011 -
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Bug identification filter: what is this insect found inside my parents' home in Northern California?
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posted by Ms. Toad
on Jul 21, 2011 -
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What are these tiny round insects in my lily pond and should I get rid of them?
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posted by ameca
on Jul 8, 2011 -
6 answers
vacapinta
asked this way back in 2004 but the answers provided did not satiate my curiosity so I'm asking it again: What are these circling (or squaring) flies?
I live in San Francisco but I saw them when I lived in Southern California too.
I don't have a pressing reason I need the information, I'm just curious as all get-out about them.
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posted by dolface
on Jul 8, 2011 -
3 answers
What kind of bug is
this? Captured indoors in Northern Virginia last week. Body is about 12mm long.
posted by djb
on Jun 12, 2011 -
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Weird bug filter: When we first moved into our house a few summers ago we found hundreds, if not thousands, of dead pill bugs (or roly polies, as we called them when I was little) around all the base boards. When we went away on vacation for a few weeks in the fall of the next year it happened again. We have occasionally found a few around the base boards, but never like those other times. Does anyone know why this happened? Also, does the fact that hundreds of bugs entered the house seemingly through cracks indicate some sort of issue with the foundation?
posted by odayoday
on Jun 8, 2011 -
5 answers
What animal or insect in Georgia is likely to climb onto a sleeping camper twice in two nights?
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posted by brenton
on Apr 9, 2011 -
21 answers
We have just found this
insect on our wall - it looks a bit like a caterpillar but can anyone help identify what it is?
posted by SRMorris
on Mar 23, 2011 -
7 answers
Are there insects on the space station? (Not counting any being used in experiments)
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posted by DMan
on Aug 6, 2010 -
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What is eating my aeonium schwarzkopf? The plant looks fine, leaves are nice and healthy looking but something has eaten a large hole right through the stem just below the leaves.
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posted by srboisvert
on Jun 12, 2010 -
4 answers
Help me identify
this insect that just scared the living daylights out of us in the South West of the UK.
posted by Morsey
on Jun 2, 2010 -
13 answers
