You're never going to find out unless you bring those things to a professional entymologist.
Identifying beetle larvae is hard, and "white with brown/black heads" describes the larvae of half the wood boring species there are. The other half are "vaguely brown/chitin coloured"
Unless they're kind of flatish, because whole local washington species are round, fat and featuring pseudofeet some invasive species like the emerald ash borer are quite flat.
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I found this little bugger in my bed the other day. I couldn't get a great picture so it might be hard to tell what it is, but it'd be nice to know whether it is or is not a termite.
I found this little bugger in my bed the other day. I couldn't get a great picture so it might be hard to tell what it is, but it'd be nice to know whether it is or is not a termite.
It's not a termite. Termites have straight antennae, this one clearly has elbowed ones. It also appears to have a pinched waist (termites have a straight one).
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-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
That, is a Solifuge, aka a Camel spider aka wind scorpion. You can find them anywhere that's really dry. They're super ugly but not very dangerous unless you're an insect or very small mammal. No venom at all.
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Makes me really curious where said co-worker lives though.
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It is a wind scorpion! They're not really spiders and not really scorpions, but they're good folks to have around. They eat other bugs and they're not venomous.
They can be scary as fuck when they move, though, because they scuttle pretty fast.
So I've been meaning to try to identify these little guys for a while now. They like to hang out on my deck and slowly fan their patterned wings (looks like some kind of display behavior?). Roughly size and shape of an ant. Seem completely harmless and a bit skittish. In the northern Virginia area.
Also been meaning to seal the deck . .
I can not figure out what that thing is. Could you get a top-down picture?
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Sooo, i think got bit in vietnam. Didnt feel anything but woke up with a bruised area om my thigh about 4 cm in diameter, with two red puncture marks in the center. Spaced about 8mm apart. Its not very painful unless i press down on it. Pics coming soon.
I'm so excited! I've been waiting to see a bug just for this thread!
I submit one Stripey Boi from Nova Scotia, Canada, for your identification pleasure.
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Excellent pictures!
That is a round-headed apple tree borer. Which is a really pretty bug, but one that's hated by orchards all over america since it will go after pretty much every commercial variety of fruit tree.
Interestingly enough it belongs to a tribe of beetle which has only a single new world genus (and 15 species) out of its massive 1400 world-wide species.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Sooo, i think got bit in vietnam. Didnt feel anything but woke up with a bruised area om my thigh about 4 cm in diameter, with two red puncture marks in the center. Spaced about 8mm apart. Its not very painful unless i press down on it. Pics coming soon.
Any ideas?
well in no time you will be able to take pictures of the monster that emerges from it!
Awesome! Thanks! Luckily we dont have any orchards in my apartment building so I was able to observe it without worry. Very pretty beetle!
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
-John Stuart Mill
It's also fairly typical for some bloodsuckers that when they don't get a good suck on their first bite they move a few cm and try again.
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
A Little Brown Bat is small enough to scrape you in your sleep and you wouldn't even know it. (this isn't a Vietnam native species, just as an example)
Frankly if you suspect anything might have bitten you and you don't know what it was, don't even take the risk that it might simply be an insect. See a doctor asap and get a Rabies shot.
A Little Brown Bat is small enough to scrape you in your sleep and you wouldn't even know it. (this isn't a Vietnam native species, just as an example)
Frankly if you suspect anything might have bitten you and you don't know what it was, don't even take the risk that it might simply be an insect. See a doctor asap and get a Rabies shot.
Small update, went to see a docter, he said he'd only experienced one bat bite in 5 years and suspected a dry-ish white lipped tree viper bite as those do happen quite often. Did a bloodtest and came up with slightly elevated coagulation time values. (Which makes sense since the ammount of time that had passed.) He said i was pretty lucky that very little venom was delivered.
A Little Brown Bat is small enough to scrape you in your sleep and you wouldn't even know it. (this isn't a Vietnam native species, just as an example)
Frankly if you suspect anything might have bitten you and you don't know what it was, don't even take the risk that it might simply be an insect. See a doctor asap and get a Rabies shot.
Small update, went to see a docter, he said he'd only experienced one bat bite in 5 years and suspected a dry-ish white lipped tree viper bite as those do happen quite often. Did a bloodtest and came up with slightly elevated coagulation time values. (Which makes sense since the ammount of time that had passed.) He said i was pretty lucky that very little venom was delivered.
Sounds like things could have gone worse for you.
Also, google that snake. If that it what bit you, sounds like you missed out on seeing a really cool looking snake up close and personal as it was gnawing on you.
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"I can't."
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Identifying beetle larvae is hard, and "white with brown/black heads" describes the larvae of half the wood boring species there are. The other half are "vaguely brown/chitin coloured"
Unless they're kind of flatish, because whole local washington species are round, fat and featuring pseudofeet some invasive species like the emerald ash borer are quite flat.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
I must know what this means, please explain.
It's not a termite. Termites have straight antennae, this one clearly has elbowed ones. It also appears to have a pinched waist (termites have a straight one).
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Found at my wife’s coworker’s house apparently.
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A sun spider.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sunspider&rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS624US624&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4z8Xy5M7jAhWrrFQKHfbMCjQQ_AUIESgB&biw=1517&bih=694&dpr=0.9
Not actually a spider, and scary because it's big but not as harmful as it looks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
Makes me really curious where said co-worker lives though.
They can be scary as fuck when they move, though, because they scuttle pretty fast.
Goddamn
There’s a giant fucker scurrying around this apartment I’m in and it’s his house now I might go sleep in the car
I like that we gave three different names for the same bug monster, and they were all correct.
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-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Any ideas?
I submit one Stripey Boi from Nova Scotia, Canada, for your identification pleasure.
-John Stuart Mill
That is a round-headed apple tree borer. Which is a really pretty bug, but one that's hated by orchards all over america since it will go after pretty much every commercial variety of fruit tree.
Interestingly enough it belongs to a tribe of beetle which has only a single new world genus (and 15 species) out of its massive 1400 world-wide species.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
well in no time you will be able to take pictures of the monster that emerges from it!
-John Stuart Mill
Oh, that's %100 the guys I got. Thanks!
Or a vampire bat
I hear they often feed on calves.
My thought exactly...but i didnt see anyone mentioning spiders. Maybe a centipede?
Anyway, no necrosis or blistering, just a bruised-like ring which is fading by now. Guess whatever it was it wasn't that venomous.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Edit: i just thought about bats... seems farfeteched but looking at the space between the bites it's not impossible?
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Frankly if you suspect anything might have bitten you and you don't know what it was, don't even take the risk that it might simply be an insect. See a doctor asap and get a Rabies shot.
The worst part about Palmetto bugs is when you try to kill one and instead of trying to run away, it flies right at your face.
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Small update, went to see a docter, he said he'd only experienced one bat bite in 5 years and suspected a dry-ish white lipped tree viper bite as those do happen quite often. Did a bloodtest and came up with slightly elevated coagulation time values. (Which makes sense since the ammount of time that had passed.) He said i was pretty lucky that very little venom was delivered.
Sounds like things could have gone worse for you.
Also, google that snake. If that it what bit you, sounds like you missed out on seeing a really cool looking snake up close and personal as it was gnawing on you.
*it's a lizard*
"I can't."
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Anolis_lizards
That's not saying a lot.
Follow it around until it shows off its big sexy throat sack to confirm.
(Could be a while if it is either not male or not an anole)