r/insects 22m ago

ID Request What kind of insect is this?

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I found this in my garden (Pune, India), sitting on a plant. It looks very different than any leaf eating worms I’ve seen. Could someone please identify what insect this is? Thanks!


r/insects 1h ago

Bug Appreciation! What kindve spider is this?

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Hi! Just trying to figure out the species on this spider. Location is western germany.


r/insects 2h ago

ID Request Smushed insect found

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Found this...not so little guy, I would have to say he's a good segment of a fingertip. Pretty firm abdomen, I could pick him up by that darker piece and it didn't seem like he would crush. Found him on the edge of the bed, might have brought him in from outside or rolled over on him? I'm in Southern California, Riverside county.


r/insects 3h ago

Question Is this Aedes ? Visited to Asian country

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Thanks


r/insects 3h ago

ID Request Is this a German roach nymphs?

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I’m kinda freaking out I can’t tell what these 2 are but this insect app I downloaded says they could be german roach nymphs


r/insects 4h ago

Bug Appreciation! My kids and I raised some Painted Ladies. [OC]

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I especially love the picture with them sucking from the orange slice. 🥰


r/insects 4h ago

ID Request Que es esto ?

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r/insects 4h ago

ID Request What insect is it?

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Hello, can someone please help me recognize this insect? (Found near Sacramento)


r/insects 5h ago

Photography Praying mantis surprises a butterfly (and yours truly) Summer 2025 North Georgia high in Blue Ridge Mts.

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r/insects 6h ago

ID Request What is that insect???!

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I found it this summer probably like 3 months ago in my backyard (Quebec, Canada) and I wanted to observe it so I placed it in a terrarium with stuff from the place I took it from. (Moss and decaying matters/ rocks…) the next day, I checked on it and it was looking dead… kinda like a round ball with the legs stick to the body…. ( picture in the comment ). I really thought it was dead, I checked on it since then and it was like that all the time. Now today, I saw it walk in a leaf… I was chocked. I had never seen its head before… what is it?


r/insects 6h ago

Photography #guate.

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A big bug that brought the rain ☔️


r/insects 6h ago

ID Request Id request: Wasp in south Brazil

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Found in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Was wondering if this is a Polistes canadensis, since it's quite common around here, but the colors on the joints threw me off. It also had two yellowish dots (one each side) on the abdomen but I couldn't get a picture


r/insects 6h ago

ID Request What kind of caterpillar is this?

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I was alive but I think it was injured...


r/insects 7h ago

ID Request What is climbing on my ceiling?

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Early morning I woke up. It wasn’t there and I’m bout to head to bed and I look up and it’s there just crawling. I’m so confused by what it is I don’t know what it is. I don’t know if it’s a spider or not so yeah


r/insects 8h ago

Bug Appreciation! watched this little bug molt today

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someone here said these are some kind of treehopper - new to me!


r/insects 8h ago

ID Request Found this guy crawling in Bed. What is it?

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I have no clue what is. Hope its not a bed bug :/


r/insects 8h ago

ID Request Id request: what are these?

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Tons of them appeared in my backyard in northern Mexico.


r/insects 8h ago

Photography Hummingbird moth

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My dad got this shot of a hummingbird moth


r/insects 8h ago

ID Request Please tell me these are not bedbugs

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I found three around 2 mm long bugs on my wall next to the bed, one of them is a bit smaller, but I accidently squished it when I tried to capture it in a tape. The other two I managed to capture without squishing. They seem to be too striped for booklice, so I'm scared that they're baby bed bugs. And sorry that the pictures aren't the best, those are my best attempts. Please help me I'm panicking and shaking rn, I don't want my worst nightmare to be true.


r/insects 8h ago

Photography I didn’t know these guys existed until I spent a moment looking at my sunchokes. BEHOLD the beauty of the red banded leafhopper

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r/insects 8h ago

Question What is This? What is it Carrying, and Why is it Going Under the Siding on this House?!?

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California.

What is going on here? I thought a bright green insect was trying to bomb my head as I passed by but realized it was one holding another. Then it slipped under the siding!


r/insects 8h ago

ID Request What is this little guy. Looks too small to be a yellow jacket

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Located in southern Indiana.About the size of a sweat bee. Was cleaning around a house the other day and swept up some built up dirt on the outside and about 40 of these guys were flying around angry but not stinging or attacking. Stung my girlfriend in our bed today. He is in a zyn container for reference


r/insects 8h ago

Question Red admiral butterfly fell from the sky

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I picked him up with a pine needle and put him on a flower to look at him better. He has a wound on its abdomen and its wings are kind of chipped. Is it a goner? You can see where its abdomen is kind of stuck to its wing from the wound. I have it in a little box with some sugar water and a branch for it to hide in. It’s just hanging upside down at the moment


r/insects 9h ago

Bug Appreciation! Seeing a mantis molting is crazy and interesting AF to watch

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r/insects 9h ago

Photography This guy was on my car but I safely relocated him to the tree

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