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Sorry for the bad image - it's from my panicked sister. Here is a cropped version

I just want to confirm that it probably isn't too dangerous, before I tell her. Unless allergies etc of course

I've done some searching but I find that the body shape of the likely species to be found there are very different from this one. Maybe it's a female with eggs?

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EDIT: its a masked hunter nymph

No idea what this is and iNaturalist couldn't help

Lint bug? Another picture

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by janonymous@lemmy.world to c/whatsthisbug@lemmy.ml
 
 

Found by day inside of a home in Germany. Not very skittish. Don't see the black stripes a German cockroach should have. It's the second one I've found inside, while I also found a few outside on the balcony (ground level), one drowned in the bird bath. I've also seen one inside a friend's room and on another ones balcony. Every time during the day. Looks very similar to the post HairyHarry@lemmy.world made last year.

Never seen them before in my life, but it doesn't seem to be the bad kind. Or am I wrong?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by HairyHarry@lemmy.world to c/whatsthisbug@lemmy.ml
 
 

In and outside our house (inside one, outside more of them)

This is a small one. Also found one about an inch long.

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They are swarming every night at sunset for about the last week or so

Edit: thanks

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I'm not sure what this is, but my guess was a Dobson fly.

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Found on a trail in California, SF Bay Area. About an inch long.

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It's a bit hard to make out in the photo, but there the center is a larger black insect being swarmed by dozens of small light brown ones. The larger one looks like some sort of beetle. What are the smaller ones?

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Partial thumb for scale

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I'm in Michigan if that helps. Never even known anyone around here who has seen or had a roach problem.

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Terrible picture but it's the best i could get.

In the US south jersey.

They're tiny, dark with some spots and seem to like hanging out in windowsills.

They super squishy when squeezed and slow, they started appearing inside when the weather was getting warm a few weeks ago.

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That's the closest species I found but it's said on wikipedia that it can be found in central/north America. I found it inside my house (not inhabited) in France.

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And importantly, is it a harmful one that should be separated from my Ficus?

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Small white spherical eggs, with small orange/brown dots, are laid in straight lines on a cactus spine

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My first inclination is a recluse, but I'm aware of how many people get that wrong what with all the similar looking spiders around here.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/whatsthisbug@lemmy.ml
 
 
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I've been finding these around my house lately. Wondering what they are. I live in central New Jersey

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Body (no legs): 2,5 - 3cm Location: Southwestern Germany

The web it built is huge. I would say 30-40cm in diameter, beautiful, round and even.

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