r/insectidentification Sep 18 '25

KISSING BUGS - PLEASE READ :)

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r/insectidentification Jul 06 '25

Mod Team Recruitment Notice

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Hey there folks.

We are currently working on expanding the mod team and are opening recruitment.

We are volunteers. I do not expect anyone who we add to the team to take on some specific workload. We all have commitments outside of Reddit.

If you are interested in helping out please send us a message via modmail with a brief message introducing yourself. If possible also include why you think you would be a good fit for the mod team.

You don’t need past moderator experience to be considered. To be eligible your account must be at least a year old, and you must have been reasonably active within the subreddit for at least 3 months. Users who have been actively antagonistic to others will not be considered.

We will be reviewing the comments of applicants to verify your ability to identify various bugs. We don't expect perfection (we are all always learning!) but we do expect some level of accuracy as well as the ability to take corrections gracefully.


r/insectidentification 1h ago

Beetle ID🪲 Is this a rare or never-before-seen pattern on an asian lady beetle???? It has irregular lines and splotches of black in its patterns, rather than the typical symmetrical spots! (Video in comments)

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Location: Southern United States

I've never seen this before and couldnt find anything similar on Google! At first I thought it was just the rain droplets on its back making the patterns look warped, but no those are the actual patterns it has! Sorry I couldn't keep the camera still with how much I had to zoom in. I'll put some still pictures in the comments (would've put the pics in the post itself but then i wouldn't have been able to include the video). Is this rare??? Regardless, its absolutely beautiful!!!

You'd think that in a species that has a LARGE variety of patterns (all of which consisting of symmetrical spots, splotches, or no patterns) that if there had been one species found that has irregular _lines_ and splotches, that would be pretty easy to find as online. Like if this has been seen before, you'd think it would have gone viral for being so unique, and yet I cant find anything similar anywhere online. Like imagine someone found a rosy maple moth with spots instead of lines, that'd likely go viral and you could easily search "rosy maple moth with spots" and immediately get results (not a perfect analogy but hopefully u get my point).


r/insectidentification 24m ago

Arachnid ID🕷️ Looking to see what this spider is

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It's about an inch vertically in the image. Made a large, flat, dense web. It seems to eat bugs directly rather than tie them up. Minnesoder


r/insectidentification 1h ago

Suspected Roach ID🪳 Is this a bed bug or baby cockroach?

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Located in Central Arkansas. Found it crawling ON my bed which has me worried… it kind of resembles a roach, but possibly a bed bug? I searched around my room a little bit (not really in the nooks and crannies tho) and didn’t see any others…


r/insectidentification 2h ago

need help IDing cocoon!

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r/insectidentification 5h ago

found this bug in the rain

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r/insectidentification 8h ago

Insect Appreciation💚-Already Identified A green cloverworm moth

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r/insectidentification 8h ago

Insect Appreciation💚-Already Identified A speckled green fruitworm caterpillar

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r/insectidentification 6h ago

What are these?

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Found these guys in the garden at work over the last week in Oxford.


r/insectidentification 10h ago

Moth/Butterfly ID🦋 Very small moth-like bug

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Please excuse the blurry second photo- I added it just to give a sense of scale. It's smaller than my pinky tip and I have small hands.

I have this very small bug in my garden and have watched it since its cocoon stage and would like to know what it is- I think it's cute!

Located in central Ohio USA. The cocoon was about the size of two grains of rice, very textured and sort of floated down from a maple tree and attached itself to a dead rosemary plant. I thought it was a wooly aphid at first.

The bug emerged this morning and is dark brown or black with small white spots. Google image search was not very helpful, it kept bringing up sink flies but this has solid wings and big antennas.


r/insectidentification 7h ago

Possible Pest🏠🌼 what is this??

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r/insectidentification 16h ago

Possible Pest🏠🌼 Found in drawer on brim of old hat. (Southwest Louisiana)

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What is it? Is it indicative of an infestation? Thx in advance (dont unmute, its just a bunch of fan noises).


r/insectidentification 1d ago

What's on this Katydid's face?

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Found this a couple weeks ago. Colorado, USA


r/insectidentification 1d ago

Possible Pest🏠🌼 Who are these guys?

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Hello! Hudson Valley NY, found on a neglected basil plant. For reference I live by a creek and a pond. They seemed to be in some sort of very wispy web. They were wiggly. Thanks for looking 😁


r/insectidentification 1d ago

Possible Invasive📍 It is blue

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Hello there, I found this little guy on a pink geranium leaf outside my balcony it’s a bit bigger than a grain of rice. I'm located in the south of Mexico City.

Thanks for your answers.


r/insectidentification 1d ago

Grasshopper?

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Seen in Freeport Florida. Maybe 4” long. Foot for scale. What is it?


r/insectidentification 1d ago

Flying ant or termite?

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Southern Ontario


r/insectidentification 1d ago

Apartment insists these are a wood roach. I dont think it is.

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r/insectidentification 1d ago

ID for this? In central NC.

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Came off our dog we think. Glad it’s not a tick, but cannot identify it.


r/insectidentification 1d ago

What kind of roach?

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r/insectidentification 1d ago

Location unknown/Other question Moth infestation

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Every summer our kitchen gets these small moths. Last year we found the larvae in the pantry and coat closet. We pulled everything and cleaned out all the larvae we could find. They are back again this year. I’d like to avoid the clean out work from last year. Can someone ID and tell me how to get rid of them or avoid this next year?


r/insectidentification 1d ago

Bugs? Fabric?

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I picked up a dress from the dry cleaners and put it in my closet where it hung for about a month. When I just went to put it on and looked down at the skirt portion, the fabric was stuck together with some white substance. When I peeled it apart, found this. are these eggs? lint discard?
Wondering if this means I need to clean out and inspect all of the clothes in my closet.


r/insectidentification 1d ago

Need help please I’m losing my mind

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I know the photo is terrible.
I’ve recently moved to Florida for university and ever since staying in my new apartment, I’ve been waking up with red, bumpy bites all over my feet. The only suspect I can find is this tiny black dot of a bug that I can barely even take a picture of before it hops away and disappears. Are these fleas? How do I get rid of them??? Why are they torturing me?????


r/insectidentification 1d ago

Possible Pest🏠🌼 What kind of spider mite is this?

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I have what I think are spider mites. I want to ID it correctly so I can use the proper predatory mite to control it. Thanks in advance for your help!