Silverfish Eggs and Young: What to Look For
The eggs are hidden in cracks and rarely seen at all. The young look like small adults, which is unusual among insects and genuinely useful.
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Bug Identification
Working out what an insect is from what you can actually see: colour, location, movement and look-alikes.
Types of Fleas: Which One Is in Your House
One species does almost every household infestation, whatever animal you own. The cat flea, and why the dog and human fleas are rarer than the names.
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What Do Flea Larvae Look Like? The Stage in Your Carpet
Blind, legless and light-avoiding, living deep in carpet pile on adult flea droppings. This is why vacuuming matters more than spraying does.
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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.
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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.
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Termite Eggs and Larvae: Why You Will Not See Them
They sit deep inside the colony, so a sighting means a gallery has been opened. What people find instead, and the evidence that actually matters.
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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.
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Wasp Larvae in a Nest: What Is Inside the Cells
An open nest holds white grubs in hexagonal cells, fed on chewed insects. A nest found in autumn is already finished and needs nothing done.
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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.
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Types of Wasps: Identification by Nest and Body
The nest identifies the wasp faster than the wasp does. Paper cells, a grey football, a mud tube or a hole in the ground each name a different species.
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