Who is it? Help us identify our neighbors!

Good afternoon! Please help me. Who knows what kind of insect it is? I woke up this morning with a pain in my leg. It felt like a bee sting. I pulled back the blanket and saw this insect. I can't say for sure, but I think it was already dead. It lay there and didn't move. I probably put my foot on it. The size is about 1 cm, the wings are transparent, grayish in color (like a fly or wasp), the body is black, a small head on which you can see something similar to a sting. After the bite, a round swelling formed, 1-1. 5 cm in diameter, and in the center a small red wound. It hurts a little. I am currently in Turkey. I'm worried, because I don't know what kind of insect it is and how dangerous the bite is. And should I see a doctor?

I'll add another description. I took a closer look at the insect. It has only four wings, under the dark wings are still transparent-iridescent. The body is sometimes black, sometimes dark brown. And from the side of the belly (where the paws are attached) and the paws themselves (of which there are six) are light brown. I looked carefully, really something like a sting in the mouth area. I read here on the forum about betilids, it seems. But, in betilids, the body consists of 2 segments and a head, and here the body is solid and the head is smaller than in betilids. I would really like to know what kind of animal this is, because until this morning I have already neutralized 2 of the same. Now I'm afraid to be bitten again Tell me, please!

This is a predatory bug from the Reduviidae family. He bit you by accident. Here, take a look:
http://www.google.ru/search?q=Reduviidae&h...Cg&ved=0CDAQsAQ

Thank you so much for your reply! Yes, very similar! And the bite is not dangerous, they do not tolerate any infection?

Thank you very much for the answer 3; Yes, very similar! And the bite is not dangerous, they do not tolerate any infection?

In the tropics, there are representatives of predatory bedbugs (Reduviidae), which can carry quite unpleasant diseases: http://bigmeden.ru/article/Шагаса_Болезнь
I don't know about Turkey.
And so, "Google", read about them: http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/dic_biology/6235/ХИЩНЕЦЫ
http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/ruwiki/1357....BD.D0.B8.D0.B5
And you can also find links...

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 06.06.2011 22: 17

Thank you for your help! At least it became calmer when it turned out what kind of animal I had already Googled. Of course, tropical bedbugs do not please, but I hope there are no such beetles in Turkey. Thank you again very much! Now it remains to overcome the fear of running into this "cutie" again in bed

Hello! I need your help-I searched the entire Internet, but I can't find anything similar anywhere.
There are no photos on hand, I will try to give as much known information as possible.

Very, very small beetles are crawling around the apartment, round in shape, less than a millimeter in size, black in color, at first glance and you will not notice. They choke with difficulty, because of the size. They crawl in flocks over curtains, walls, and bodies. They don't seem to bite, fly, or jump (although my husband says otherwise), but they run pretty fast.
I'm not 100% sure when and where they started, but I assume that it all started on the balcony - I saw a very large flock on a chair there. I noticed it just a few days ago in my husband's arms and now I see it everywhere. What to do, what to poison - I don't know, there is an infant at home. I'm terribly afraid of insects myself. I read about the dampness and cereals from the Internet, but I didn't see any beetles in the kitchen or in the bathroom, only on the balcony and next to it. Thank you in advance for your help!

PS: we live on the third floor in an ancient brick house, the balcony is not covered, there are trees around. Also, about a week ago, a bird started up on the balcony, we didn't touch it, it seems to have already built a nest and laid eggs - maybe something is connected with it?

Hello! I need your help-I searched the entire Internet, but I can't find anything similar anywhere.
There are no photos on hand, I will try to give as much known information as possible.

Unfortunately, there is very little information to tell you anything definite. It's not even possible to confirm if they're really insects, or mites, or... In short, it is difficult to help you without a photo. But you don't want to guess, and you don't need to - you need reliable information about the object you encountered. Try to get a camera with the macro function and upload your photos to the site. We'll see there...

Hello. Please help me identify it. Unfortunately, there are no photos yet.
A scattering of small beetles was found on the windowsill. The body is elongated, narrow, not more than 1 mm long. Either black or dark gray. Do not jump, do not fly, slowly crawl. They don't react to light. In general, they behave quite passively. But there are a lot of them, several dozen! And yesterday there wasn't one. We never keep any flowers or food on the windowsill; the windowsill is plastic.
Periodically we clean them with a rag, but after a few hours they appear again at the bottom on the windowsill and at the top on the glass.
In general, they are so small that the only thing that turned out to be considered is that they are still beetles and not garbage(

I noticed a couple of months ago a couple, clearly visible on the black hob, at first I took it for garbage, then I saw that it was moving...
Then I started noticing everything in the kitchen set. there were a lot of cereals, cereals, flour, in general, everything began to swarm with this stuff.

Small brown or gray ones (it's not clear because of the size). Up to a millimeter in length, quite fast, hiding , running away from large empty surfaces into cracks, they don't seem to react much to light.
What is it, where does it come from, and how do I get it out?

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Here, I managed to photograph them, although the quality leaves much to be desired(
Sometimes they jump sluggishly, more often they sit motionless. There is a suspicion that they are climbing from the outside. Only yesterday the whole window was thoroughly washed - today again a few pieces are sitting(

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Here, I managed to photograph them, although the quality leaves much to be desired(
Sometimes they jump sluggishly, more often they sit motionless. There is a suspicion that they are climbing from the outside. Only yesterday the whole window was thoroughly washed - today again a few pieces are sitting(

Thrips of some sort (order Thysanoptera). They live and feed on plants, including indoor plants. Often on the green onion on the windowsill meet.

alex80
This is a hay eater, a Psocoptera order.
Which one, I can't say, not an expert.

Thrips of some sort (order Thysanoptera). They live and feed on plants, including indoor plants. Often on the green onion on the windowsill meet.

Thanks! Strange, we don't keep houseplants.

Hello, experts ! Help to identify the animal, divorced darkness ! It looks like a moth of some kind...

This is a moth, family Psychodidae. Dampness love.

2 botanque: thank you !

Hello!Maybe my question is not quite on the topic,but maybe someone can answer. The other day I came home after a walk in nature (a forest on the banks of the Volga) and found a strange bite on my leg near the ankle. points at a distance of 2 mm from each other are red, in the center of which it seems as if a needle is pierced,not swollen or itchy.And when they bit me, I didn't feel it,although judging by the bite, it was someone big.The trail hasn't passed for a week now. here is a photo taken on the same day. Can someone tell me who it could be?

Looks like a vampire bite

Maybe a midge (Simuliidae) has two bites? From them, just such points remain with a drop of blood in the center. And they usually fly low.

Too big bites I think for midges....

help me identify it! They live in the bathroom. Reddish-brown, small, move quickly, can jump a little from fright, when trying to catch. Small rounded 0.5-0.7 mm, larger oblong 1-1. 5 mm
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hay eaters

while watering the garden, I observed something: I identified it as a single wasp. water flooded the burrow of a bear and a large black and yellow wasp tried to sit down near the burrow , but touched the ground for a split second and flew away-I watched for about 15 seconds This is definitely not a hornet and not a scolia, there are enough of them here and I know well. Morphology is similar to a single wasp, and so is behavior. Do such large solitary wasps exist ?

while watering the garden, I observed something: I identified it as a single wasp. water flooded the burrow of a bear and a large black and yellow wasp tried to sit down near the burrow , but touched the ground for a split second and flew away-I watched for about 15 seconds This is definitely not a hornet and not a scolia, there are enough of them here and I know well. Morphology is similar to a single wasp, and so is behavior. Do such large solitary wasps exist ?

Maybe Sceliphron destillatorium (Illiger 1807), google it.

In addition to Pelopeia, the Eumenes wasp could have shown interest in wet ground...
http://im4-tub.yandex.net/i?id=86074988-57-72

I managed to take a picture of another one, the size is about half a millimeter...

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Good afternoon.

I noticed that white dots from one and a half to one and a half millimeters long are crawling on the keyboard (black).

I collected them with cotton wool and alcohol and threw them away.

The next day again.

Then they started crawling on the monitor, too.
I started vacuuming it.
After a couple of days, we were already on the surface of the system unit.

I evicted all the flowers from the room to the balcony.

They still appear.

I vacuum in the morning and in the evening, I come, one or two pieces at the beginning of work creeps out.

I decided to ask for help from specialists.

There are several photos in the app. The beetle is glued back to the tape.
I apologize for the quality, I shoot this for the first time.

"Beetle close-up"
"Beetle close-up smaller, so you can see the edge of the tape, so you can assess the scale"
"Apparently yesterday's beetle because it looks like it has already decomposed or I pressed it too hard during the capture"

The archive contains an attempt to make a video with a moving beetle.


I will be grateful for ANY advice.

The most important two questions
: 1) What is it?
2) How to get rid of it?


Thank you in advance.

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Who is it? The photo was taken a couple of hours ago in Tuapse.

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A very interesting animal - caterpillar is called. They make butterflies. What kind of caterpillar - write in the topic "Definition of larvae, pupae, etc."

Good afternoon.

I noticed that white dots from one and a half to one and a half millimeters long are crawling on the keyboard (black).

I collected them with cotton wool and alcohol and threw them away.

The next day again.

Then they started crawling on the monitor, too.
I started vacuuming it.
After a couple of days, we were already on the surface of the system unit.

I evicted all the flowers from the room to the balcony.

They still appear.

I vacuum in the morning and in the evening, I come, one or two pieces at the beginning of work creeps out.

I decided to ask for help from specialists.

There are several photos in the app. The beetle is glued back to the tape.
I apologize for the quality, I shoot this for the first time.

"Beetle close-up"
"Beetle close-up smaller, so you can see the edge of the tape, so you can assess the scale"
"Apparently yesterday's beetle because it looks like it has already decomposed or I pressed it too hard during the capture"

The archive contains an attempt to make a video with a moving beetle.
I will be grateful for ANY advice.

The most important two questions
: 1) What is it?
2) How to get rid of it?
Thank you in advance.

It's a tick, probably a rat tick. What floor do you live on? Are there any pets (especially rodents)?
To get rid of it, you need to carry out a wet cleaning and treat it with acaricidal preparations (Google "tick repellents", or contact the former SES)

Hello, dear forum participants. Could you please help me, as a layman in insects, what kind of flying beetles (or who?)are there? filled up our apartment? A special accumulation is observed in the kitchen, and also in the morning-they like to fly next to the face and sit on the skin - they bite or not - it doesn't seem to be felt. It only turned out to scan like this, there is no good camera. I'm really tired of them.

forgot to write - place-Moscow region, p. Malakhovka

This is what? Anniversary of the" demise "of " Mimonesets"? Ndyk, rano esche, - esche a whole week in the "reserve" ... (http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=399592)
...Even the vocabulary of the first posts match...

what kind of flying beetles (or who?)are they?

If - " flying beetles (or who?)", then-why is the topic of great flies and camaroff here??
There is also a topic (for example) great babachik... Why push" beetles "to" flies and mosquitoes"? "not the babachik?" Even'that one I can't understand...
Great-great, actually, "zhukof" (in the original it is called"Definition of beetles") malchu...

I live on the 12th (last) floor, there are no animals and have not been for 5 years.

Can you advise what exactly is the best way to poison so as not to damage the electronics?

Here is another view of the tick from above through the tape.

This post was edited by karensky42 - 27.06.2011 08: 01

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Good afternoon!
I really like your forum, on the pages of this topic there were always insects that started up in my house. But a few days ago, some unknown insect appeared in the toilet (there were already 3 pieces). Please help me determine who it is? where do they come from and what should I do?

I think it's a fly of some sort, but it's very unusual.
the photo is the best that we managed to make, very small and fast....

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It's not a fly, it's some kind of rider, probably from the Braconidae. Basically," useful", in the everyday sense, insects. Parasitize the larvae and pupae of small insects (butterflies, beetles, flies,...).

This post was edited by Seneka - 27.06.2011 14: 16

Seneka, thank you so much for your prompt response. It really looks like a braconid. And what to do with them??? I thought I accidentally got into the toilet, so over the past few days, 3 pieces have already been found and all in the toilet.

Good afternoon!
I really like your forum, on the pages of this topic there were always insects that started up in my house. But a few days ago, some unknown insect appeared in the toilet (there were already 3 pieces). Please help me determine who it is? where do they come from and what should I do?

I think it's a fly of some sort, but it's very unusual.
the photo is the best that we managed to make, very small and fast....

Maybe Prosevania, a parasite of cockroaches?

Is Prosevania the right name? Google doesn't find this.
And we do have cockroaches. We moved into this apartment 1.5 months ago and almost immediately found black cockroaches= (Now we are fighting them. It turns out that if you defeat cockroaches then these insects will not be?

look for Evania (fam. Evaniidae), its another name. Parasitoid of Blatta orientalis.