Is anyone familiar with a blood-red colored moth species?
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A lot depends on where you are living (country) the first ling is to a pretty common day time moth called the cinnebar found on chalk downs in europe (not sure about the US or other places)\n\nhttp://www.rspb.org.uk/gardens/guide/atoz/c/cinnabarmoth.asp\nhttp://www.butterflygarden.co.uk/moths.htm\nhttp://www.rspb.org.uk/gardens/guide/atoz/g/gardentigermoth.asp
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The "angel bug" name is probably a local thing. They could be whiteflies or woolly aphids.\nCheck out some pics:\nhttp://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Sternorrhyncha.html
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Thatis a terribly vague description, but I am guessing some sort of ichneumon fly.
712352
The red with black spots are ladybirds, if they are black with red spots then they are Harloquins and they eat the ladybirds and excrete yellow gunk that stains furniture.  In about ten years time the Harloquins would have taken over and there will be no ladybirds left!\nMy boyfriends a conservationist and I do his typing, so I find out useless infomation like this!
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You are seeing very small scales come off of their wings.  If you are careful with a moth wing, you can rub the scales off and be left with nearly transparent material.  Butterflies are the same way; if you ever handle on, you are almost guaranteed to have some pigmented scales on your hands afterwards.\n\nOther than that, moths are made of the same stuff other living things are...water, lipids, proteins etc.\n\nHere is a nice page with some microphotography of these scales:\nhttp://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/micro3.htm
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Hmmm... looks like the common House Spider... but it also almosts looks like the Hobo Spider.... don't worry, these species are harmless but they can be quite a nuisance.
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yikes.. okay..\ngrasshoppers, praying mantis, butterflies,mosquitos, dragonflies, gnats, ticks, mites, blackflies, deerflies, spiders,russian wheat aphid, english grain aphid, brown wheat aphid, brown cherry oat( this is an insect)Hessian fly,sorghum greenbugs, winter grain mite,cereal leaf beetle\nbees,wasps, weevils, wheat stem maggots, wheat curl mite,banks grass mite, two spot spider mite,wire worm, cinch bug, false wire worm, false cinch bug,corn leaf aphid,\nDifferential grasshopper, migratory grasshopper, two striped grasshopper, red legged grasshopper, cutworm, black cutworm, dingy cutworm, glassy cutworm,armyworm,western bean cutworm, bronzed cutworm,varigated cutworm, army cutworm,fall armyworm,pale western cutworm*** all of the cutworm species, transform into their own moth..so as well as the cutworm you would now for example have the dingy cutworm moth..* saltmarsh moth, corn earworm, european corn borer, green cloverworm, grain weevils.\n\nThe list goes on and on.. but if you need to find more, do a search for grassland insects..
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You don't mention where it was found so that makes ID difficult; sounds like a Scolopendra. Look through these pics to see if you find a match. Some are poisonous; some are not.\n\nhttp://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=+%22scolopendra%22+centipede&btnG=Search
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It's the herpyllus vasifer spdier - and ... I recommend this website - I'm terrified of spiders and can't research this one for you - sorry!
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If it has no visible head (except darker mandibles) and no legs, it is a fly larva, most likely Brachycera, the most common sub order of flies (house flies, blow flies, etc.). It is difficult to determine the exact species, or even family for that matter without seeing it under a scope with a key. It is most likely some species of flesh fly or blow fly, their larvae tend to be very mobile, althought they typically dont travel very far, so the source of your maggot problem may be or possibly was not too long ago, just outside the area where they are coming in by. If they depleted their food resource, typically rotting flesh or dung, they will sometimescrawl away in search of more food....\n\nhope this helps!
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Smart lady--catch it put in jar--just in case--I do the same thing with wood ticks. I put them in jar with a little alcohol--my guess is it's probably just an albino or a young one--not sure what say beyond that--I'm not a doctor maybe try http://www.webMD.com or http://www.mayoclinic.com/ you could always call a local university and ask for an expert in the biology department. maybe Google "white mosquito" or "mosquito identification." Hope it's not serious. Try not to worry it's probably nothing. Good Luck :-)
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There is no real way of telling them apart, they are what you call sexually monomorphic and monochromatic, meaning they have no physical difference or difference in color. The females are slightly larger than the males, but you would only really be able to tell them apart if you had both in your hands. Under a microscope with some entomological knowlegde, you would be able to see the genetalia, but with the naked eye, it is quite difficult.\nThe best way to tell would be to find a pair in copulation, the one on the bottom is the female and the one on the top is the male. Seeing this will also give you an idea of the size of a female compared to the male....but thats about all....\n\nHope this helps!
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One common bug with that colour pattern is called the box elder bug.\n\nThey feed on the leaves of maple trees (also called box elders), and can become minor nuisances when they start moving into people's houses in the late summer and fall, looking for a place to spend the winter.\n\nThey'll bunch up in big masses in crawl spaces, attics, behind the walls, or in unused rooms and closets.  \n\nSometimes, if it gets warm enough in winter, they'll wake up and go for a wander.  For some reason, they usually wait until company is over, and then they go slowly buzzing across the room before landing on your bosses' wife's hair.\n\nThe best way to take care of them is actually a vacuum cleaner.  They're perfectly harmless, and can be sucked up and disposed of with ease.\n\nHere's some pictures http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/natural/insects/bugsfaq/boxeld.htm\n\nhttp://www.extension.umn.edu/yardandgarden/YGLNews/images/boxelderbug.jpg
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a bit more description would be helpful. \nbut I suspect that it may have been a bug not a beetle. \n\nDo the images on this website look similar to your bug?\nhttp://eny3005.ifas.ufl.edu/lab1/Hemiptera/Pentatomid.htm\nyou can also type in stink bug in google image\n\nif not, go to the library and check out an insect guide and look through the pics
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In the US,insects can be identified by the Dept. of Agriculture,the Department of Natural Resources ,and by the UW Extension Offices.\n\nGood luck to you.\n\n~Z~
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Moths are less colourful than butterfly, they are coloured like dead leaves or tree barks(not all of them). They can be known easily by looking at their antennae, butterflies have thin, thread-like antennae, while moth's atennae can be straight or feathery. Some of them have short, stabbing mouthparts Others, which have none at all, cannot eat and only live long enough to reproduce. Not all moths are dull in colour, a day-flying moth from Madagascar looks a lot like a butterfly but it is a moth.  Not all moths are vegetarian, several swallowtails suck up the rotting flesh of animals. Vampire Moths from Asia has a dagger-like mouthpart that it uses to suck the blood of its vintim, including humans.\nA wing of a moth and a butterfly are same, they revel thousands of scales overlapping each other, each has different sizes, shape and colour, this is what allows moths and butterflies indentify each other.\nMoths mostly go out when it is dark, to prevent predators such as birds from eating it.
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Well if it was similar in appearance to a black widow it is most likely in the same family (Theriididae) they are actually a very common family throughout the world. Many juvenile and male widows are colored in this manner, typically mottled, with red, yellow and black markings. It is possible that the spider you saw is in fact a widow (Latrodectus spp.).\nWhen young spiders are present, there is no real danger, they are not aggressive and can actually be handled without danger, but if the species in question is new to you, just handle it like you did, that was the best way to handle the situation.\nIf in fact the nest belonged to that spider, then it is most likely not a true widow, becasue in that area, the adults are the typical black with red hourglass, so then there would be no need to worry.\n\nhere are some images of young widows to compare it to\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/80826\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/73801\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/26128\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/13097\n\n\n\nhope this helps!