Insect Egg Identification: What You Found and Where
Eggs are named by where they are, not by how they look. Fabric, food, timber, soil and skin each narrow the list down to two or three suspects.... Read more.
What Do Cockroach Eggs Look Like? The Ootheca Explained
Cockroaches do not lay loose eggs. They make a hard brown capsule, and finding one means breeding on the premises rather than a single visitor.... Read more.
What Do Ant Eggs Look Like? Eggs, Larvae and Pupae
The white grains people photograph are almost always pupae rather than eggs, and finding a pile of them means the nest is right there, not nearby.... Read more.
Types of Weevils: Pantry, Garden and the Snout
The snout names the family in one look, and no other household beetle has one. Rice and granary weevils in food, vine and root weevils outdoors.... Read more.
Insect Larvae in the House: What the Grub Is
A larva looks nothing like its adult, which is why searching by appearance fails. Where you found it names it, and names what to do about it.... Read more.
Maggots: Which Fly, and What They Are Telling You
Maggots are a location problem rather than a pest one. A bin, a drain, a wall cavity or something dead, and the species points at which of them.... Read more.
Types of Rodents in the House: What Got In
Only two of them actually live indoors. Droppings, gnaw marks and the size of the entry hole separate mice, rats, voles, shrews and squirrels.... Read more.
Carpet Beetle Larvae: What They Look Like and Where
The bristly stage does all the damage and gets blamed for bites it cannot inflict. The shed skins are easier to find than the larvae themselves.... Read more.
Translucent or Clear Bugs in the House
Translucency usually describes a life stage rather than a species, which changes what it tells you: whatever you found was probably born nearby.... Read more.
Tiny Red Bugs in the House: What They Usually Are
Red narrows the list to five, and where you found them decides which. None of the common answers damages a house and only one of them bites.... Read more.