My dad found it in their living room as they were moving furniture and prepping the wall to paint.
Capturing/eating a moth/butterfliy
Flew in the window while I was teaching a class on Zoom ;)
Brampton, Peel Region, ON
Brampton, Peel Region, ON
Update... Ephestia kuehniella is the best choice.
Original comments...
Update... M. subtetricella may be a better choice...
Can't find a fit for this yet. A reach perhaps but something like 05951 – Laetilia myersella?
Just one pic here... mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=595...
Killed Rat in front of us in basement of our house. Remarkable to see inside!
Found this girl in my bathroom, put her in the fridge a few nights and released her in a less busy part of the basement after a few pictures.
Legs included, it was about 3 cm long. I found it in a large pastry mixing bowl that had been left out overnight. The sides of the bowl were slippery with butter, and the spider appeared unable to climb out on its own. I eventually released it outside.
Observed on windowsill.
flew in through an open window
Alive, background is regular printer paper for size comparison. Same type of organism found earlier: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17381284
Found inside the apartment, waiting to be let out!
body 5 mm long
Am leaning towards Chalybion californicum.
found inside house
This observation is for the mites that were found on a live cranefly.
See link to the observation of the host cranefly below👇🏽 for more photos.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/86677028
Tiny red dot observed crawling around my bathroom sink as I went to brush my teeth last night. Looked like a spider mite or something similar to me, and iNat seems to agree. I checked my houseplants and don't see any mites on them so maybe this is a predatory one rather than a plant sucker. Comparing with BugGuide pictures, it seems to be most similar to this: https://bugguide.net/node/view/868276/bgimage
This beastie was tiny and hard to get pictures of with indoor lighting. First picture is a focus stack of several images to improve clarity.
Immature Diestrammena asynamora from my Upper Marlboro Maryland Basement, non-native species now common in many houses
Northern or Southern? Sadly, it got into the house and the cats got it. It's not dead, yet. It doesn't look like it's going to recover, but I put it outside on a catnip plant just in case.
UPDATE: Found a male in the house a week later. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91920357
Should I look for egg cases?
Must have left the front door open. For a minute I thought it was one of my daughter's toy spiders from halloween :)
~20mm body length
We found this wasp sitting on the inside of our sliding glass door, near the bottom where all the nose prints decorate the glass. It was about 13 mm long not including the antennae. It was surprisingly patient about having a large camera only a couple of inches away.
Some of the color differences are due to adjusting the white balance on our led lights.
No idea if this is a fungus, a bacteria, a slime mold, or what. All I know is I forgot to put the leftover beet/lentil soup back in the fridge before leaving for a week in France, and I came home to... whatever this is. 🤐
Growing up from under the threshhold of my cellar door
Small plant growing in dish scrubber in the kitchen sink. A gross amount of food stuff had accumulated in the brush's natural fibers. Probably growing from something we ate.
Found in the waterfilter of a indoor pet water fountain, the small LED light provided light on the filter. These are very small unicellular, non-flagellate coccoid algae with 2-4, parietal (along wall) chloroplasts in each cell, with pyrenoid in each chloroplast (I think), and are unicellular but aggregated. There might be mucilage, I think so based on the dark field photos. They are very small, see photo of 4 cells in darkfield from 60x, uncropped (I have yet to figure out the scale for the images). I cannot see any cell wall ornamentation. What might this be? (Not Coccomyxa, since it is more than one chloroplast per cell.)
Impressively long legs, yet oddly variable in length at the same time. This was around the time of a strong windstorm, but during a lull, and while I was taking these photos a slightly smaller one fell/jumped onto me from farther up the wall.
City Nature Challenge 2020: Quarantine Edition!
Now I can say my cats participated in CNC 2020
Tiny gorgeous thing, found her underneath a palmetto frond. Looks like encyrtidae to me, under all the glitter and that beefy 3rd leg pair, but I dunno!
Springtails on grain of rice
I found this Springtail in my bathtub. It had been accidentally brought in on a moist bucket that we use to dump shower water on our compost (to reduce waste).
4 species were present.
I found this Springtail in my bathtub. It had been accidentally brought in on a moist bucket that we use to dump shower water on our compost (to reduce waste).
Photo 7 shows a size comparison to my thumb.
4 species were present.
YOU EAT MY SPECIMENS YOU BECOME MY SPECIMENS
Juvenile (nymph) head louse on my son’s hair; origin unknown...
Photographed with an iPhone at my parents house in Queens, NYC for the Never Home Alone project. About a millimeter or less in length.
Extremely small, smaller than the springtails. Found in damp windowsill several floors up.
Edit: added first two photos, dorsal view of 2nd individual
On fly leg in house
Attacking a fly
An increasingly common synanthropic "house spider" in Texas. This one was smaller than most I've found, maybe 6mm body length. I believe this is a sub-adult female.
Should I be upset that a spider wasp somehow found its way into my house and found a spider to kill? And that it was found on a bed (not mine, thankfully), presumably looking for a nesting spot to stash its spider and lay its eggs? Mostly I was excited about the photo op, though.
found in kitchen window
Those Amazing Eyes!
Tiny wasp on the outside of my very dirty window. They don't stay still long so a challenge to get the shot that shows off the beautiful blue eyes but worth the effort.
ID confirmed in bugguide here: https://bugguide.net/node/view/2053178
I have found these guys inside my home from time to time.
@tfandre
Just hanging out in the bathroom at night. There were a few of what appeared to be the same species.
ID is based on iNat suggestion and seems logical.
He Came into the kitchen. I put him back outside.
A yearly springtime visitor in my laundry room...
Collected from a kitchen sink pipe while fixing a clog. Probably not able to be ID'd further but this was as zoomed-in as my microscope would go at 1000x magnification.