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Actually, it's an Oriental cockroach. They are entirely black.
It's the pupa of a moth. Don't know what kind though.
I love pink. Too bad we don't have them here in the Northwest. I understand they come in a vivid pink/yellow color.
Top: Some kind of ladybug larva
Bottom: Some kind of aphid
Your cuddlebug is a male valley carpenter bee (<em>Xylocopa varipuncta</em>).
Males do not have stingers; I think he flew in in search of a hug!
Yeah, I'm not so sure about that. Did you really find that in South India?
This picture is part of a video, supposedly taken in Costa Rica. I don't have a link but I distinctly remember the video being posted on this sub a few weeks ago, as well.
I have managed to find pictures other than this one (including a panda-coloured one), but I haven’t been able to narrow down the classification past Curculionidae. Also, https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Trumpet_Weevil
I had the same problem until I started adding this to the water I use for water the plants. Its a bacteria that kills the bugs. Works great.
https://www.amazon.com/Summit-responsible-solutions-110-12-Mosquito/dp/B0000AH849/
Jumping spiders are EXTREMELY smart. They have the same flicker-frame rate as humans (in addition to their binocular vision) so televisions can be used to test their response to visual stimuli. Furthermore, they have excellent memories, and are able to remember where a prey item <em>they cannnot see</em> was as they find a better vantage point for attack.
Woodlouse of some kind?
EDIT: I think this is it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligia_oceanica
"largest oniscid isopod"
Yeah, I don't think so. Look, the photo is a snippet of a video that was uploaded almost 4 months ago to this website, and the description says it was taken in Costa Rica.
I'll have to disagree here. They are harder to remove than other common pests, but not as hard as exterminators and commercials will try to have you believe. It's a billion-dollar industry that feeds off fear. It's a lot simpler than you'd think.
I've worked over a decade as building super in the hood. I've seen more bed bugs than many exterminators have.
- all fabric that cannot be bleached or soft furniture needs to be trashed.
- Buy a cheap steamer. Go through all the crevices in/near bedrooms, example: https://www.amazon.com/Handheld-Multi-Purpose-Pressurized-Curtains-Crevasses/dp/B005SI8YZC
- fog+Spray in all crevices before leaving the house, do this 3 times, with 3 day intervals. Follow the product instructions CAREFULLY.
ps: for visible bedbugs: 1:1 alcohol-water solution kills bed bugs on contact. make a bottle and spray liberally
Here is a nice journal article on the "eight legged cats" - so called because their hunting abilities are so advanced :)
Pretty sure it is some kid’s school lab as it’s a pretty common insect specimen kit.
https://www.amazon.com/Celestron-44407-Specimen-Black-Yellow/dp/B00I0S70G6
I’m fairly certain I’ve had the exact same kit as OP back in the day and I bought it at Toys R US in the educational toys section.
It's a cerambycid larva. This beetle family are also known as longhorn beetles. What type of tree did it come out of?
Does anyone care about getting more specific than "assassin bug"? Because if not, please mark this as "resolved"
There are zillions of assassin bugs. [Here](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guanyang_Zhang/publication/269819737_An_Illustrated_Identification_Key_to_Assassin_Bug_Subfamilies_and_Tribes_(Hemiptera_Reduviidae\)/links/549a35690cf2fedbc30cb2bb.pdf) is a pretty good illustrated key that might get you down to the right tribe.
I'm in the central valley and we get these almost every winter. We use https://www.walmart.com/ip/17165156?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222227019300298&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=42529881872&wl4=pla-81187379192&wl5=9032298&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175... sorry for the long link. Within 3 days the war is over for us.
Leave them be. They're not dangerous.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Turritella_communis
There is a more specific link.
Edit: I'm drunk and just realized those are sea snails. I don't know, man. But I do know that you have nothing to worry about as far as them being dangerous. They're just shells.
I can't see the images in the book you posted, but here is another book source with a beautiful picture on page 105. It looks very much like OP's bug and given that this is the only member of that genus in Australia, I think you've likely nailed the species.
Good questions.
I honestly started by noticing that it looked like a bolas spider, both by its pose and by its unusually-shaped abdomen. I think that recognition gave me a fair head start.
Googling “bolas spider Borneo” led me to this image, which was labeled with a genus. I thought this spider looked close enough to yours that I could try this genus as a foothold.
The Wikipedia page for Ordgarius lists O. sexspinosus as being found in Indonesia, which includes most of Borneo.
Image searching “Ordgarius sexspinosus” yielded many pictures with that binomial label. These pictures looked close enough to your spider that I felt comfortable enough to suggest that species ID. I figured that even if I was incorrect, I’d at least be close enough to give you something useful to work with.
It's an Orbweaver, family Araneidae. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say it's in the <em>Cyclosa</em> genus. They often incorporate a "trash line" down the center of their web.
Yes, they in fact do make great pets! Look for a product called "beetle jelly." A quick Google search suggests that Korea has a healthy interest in stag and rhinoceros beetles much like Japan, where they have an actual beetle rearing industry.
This is probably the best book on rearing stag and rhinoceros beetles. I own it and can highly vouch for it! It's also how I was able to ID your stag! BioQuip also sells the book, so you know it's gotta be good. :)
When I was a kid I had one of these with little shrimps... until I brought it to school for show and tell and an adult mistook it for a snow globe.
Green angel-wing katydid. It looks less spiny than a regular. They mainly eat pussy and leaves. But you should return it to the wild. Flowers aren't made to be pressed.
I at least know it's a wood boring beetle larvae, so I just search the google cache with that query.
If someone posts an image of a succulent wanting to know what kind it is, I just search a cache with the query "succulents".
First image leads to a link that would help you identify it.
Some type of fulgorid. Non-tropical species are generally nowhere as rock-n-roll as tropical species (such as the one in your photograph).
I think this is in the Pterodictya genus. More specifically, it may be <em>P. reticularis</em>.
Cool find! That appears to be a water scorpion!
Be careful around them - their bite is supposed to be quite painful.
More info here
It looks like we've got the genus nailed down, and Gnoma subfasciata is a very good candidate for species.
Here is a listing from the Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, detailing longicorn beetles found in Selangor. Gnoma subfasciata is the only Gnoma species identified. (Pg. 110)
While this doesn't guarantee that your beetle is Gnoma subfasciata and not some similar looking related species, it does make it seem more likely.
According to this source (pg. 207) Talanthia can be differentiated from Mecopus by the extraordinary length of their antennae.
"With a habit very much like that of Mecopus, this genus (Talanthia) is trenchantly differentiated by the unusual length of the antennae - the scape alone, in (so far as I can judge) both sexes, extending to the posterior border of the eye."
Dragonfly larva methinks
You should definitely look more into them because they are gnarly babies. They are predatory and can launch their bottom mandible to grab prey.
FYI Salticids are super smart, and generally friendly. I handle them often, never been bit.
Here's a scholarly article that talks a bit about how impressive their hunting abilities are, calling them "eight-legged cats".
Thankyou! I will now learn all I can about this species... For science!
Edit: used the above as a starting point to find that the n. nigrita is not a UK native and it is more likely a n. humator
yeah I have a rough draft care book https://www.gitbook.com/book/melissamcewen/jumping-spider-salticidae-care-and-keeping/details they are pretty easy to care for, but would need more than just the gnats
Strangely enough I was just looking up this guy 10 minutes ago. It looks like a Spider Beetle. Bigger picture
Capping all outlets helps both with energy efficiency (your heat/ac escapes less) and preventing unwanted houseguests. I use these
There are lots of brown and black widows where I live. It's rare to find these exoskeleton skins and usually extremely difficult to identify a spider by it since the normal 3D identifiers aren't exactly prominent, but in this case it looks pretty obvious to me. The rounded bulb abdomen shape, along with the direction and length of the leg casings definitely point towards the Latrodectus (widow spider genus). With that, the bright artificial looking red hourglass is unmistakable. I'm guessing there's some sort of bleach, chlorine, or other chemical in the toliet water making the softer and more susceptible underbelly casing turn white, but I'm confident that's a black widow casing. I wouldn't panic, we have them all over where I live and they're manageable with the right bug sprays. I get Demand CS, from Amazon and dilute a tiny bit in a gallon sprayer jug. diluting it 1/2 as much (double strength) killed our scorpion nests. It's a bit pricey, but it lasts for like 2 years if you spray every 3 months and keep it in a cool dry area. My husband learned about it from the bug control guy commissioned by the desert power plant company he worked for. It won't even harm the bats, rabbits, tortoises, or lizards in the area so it's completely safe for our dogs, children and even plants. Haven't seen a widow or scorpion in my house or yard for 4 years.
Edit: sorry I wrote a book Edit: I didn't really think about your location until after I posted... Black widows are REALLY rare in MI, but apparently they are moving further north as the climate shifts.
That's what the step up traps are for:
https://www.amazon.com/Climbup-Interceptor-Bed-Bug-Trap/dp/B0033SC0LI/
I put diatomaceous earth in the center circle, talcum powder in the outer ring. They can climb into the outer ring, but can't climb back out. Worked magic for us.
I think the Vaseline / double sided tape is a great idea! I didn't think of it when we had our problem.
Oh, yeah -- this is crucial. The bed cannot touch the wall. Absolutely. Thanks for mentioning that.
Hard to say, sometimes they are intentionally introduced like this guy, but you'd have to get yours down to species (requires an expert with the right equipment) to know if it's native or not.
/u/quaoarpower and others, I've uploaded the paper of this fascinating species here.
Found this on my bed. Hopefully the pictures are clear enough. I've dealt with bed bugs before, please don't tell me they followed me into my new house. If anyone can help me ID that would be much appreciated. Thank you!
It seems they're very common in England but don't care much for Scotland or Ireland.
Oddly enough I came across that by googling South African caterpillars and clicking on these poor guys.
Cool! These guys, right?
They are apparently the evolutionary result of males in the species getting better at spotting females flying overhead.
I'm afraid I won't be of any help identifying genus or species, though.
or this. Sorry full refs not available to me off campus.
As luck has it, one literally just flew into my face. Here is another picture, but the bottom line is i think i will be calling an exterminator.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1lyEhzO1dxDZEF0eFNvOGtUR2c/edit?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1lyEhzO1dxDSU1na2s5bWlrQVU/edit?usp=sharing
Oh, wow! Thank you so much!
I'm afraid I don't know much of anything about them, but if you can read German, a Karl Heller included them in his writings about Zygopinae (with special emphasis on the genus Mecopus.) Talanthia species are mentioned on pgs. 31-33, but I don't speak German and Google Translate falls especially short when it comes to any sort of scientific writings.
I did find someone who found similar weevils in Gabon, and (if Google translate is to be believed) they moved very quickly along twigs, like spiders. He/she also said they had a tendency to drop when approached, and then fly away.
There are large local reactions to hymenoptera venom, which is the most common adverse reaction.
>Large local reactions (LLRs) to Hymenoptera stings, that are defined as skin reactions around the site of the sting characterized by edema, erythema and itching, with a diameter greater than 10 cm, are much more common than systemic reactions (SRs) [1]. In fact, prevalence of LLRs as high as 26.4 and 38 % were reported in the general population source.
Severe allergy to bee and wasp venom is usually considered to be anaphylaxis
source am physician
Sounds like it could be a staph infection. They're often mistaken for insect/spider bites and the infected area is usually hot to the touch. It would also explain why she never felt the sting.
Since you mentioned she already saw a doctor, I'm surprised they didn't test for it. Did they rule it out? If not, it's important to seek medical attention for this, since if it is a staph infection, it could become very serious.
It is supposed to be the largest weevil in North America, but there are other weevils that are even bigger.
> M. nidicolens
No problem - glad you like them... I only mentioned the biting because I recall there was an article a couple years back about fear of potential 'biting' jumping spiders in the Islands and M. nidicolens was suspected since it is the most common..but it could never be determined what species was biting and the injury aspect seemed over exaggerated..
In case you didn't know Maryland Is Out Of The Habitat Range Of Brown Recluse Spiders, but that is not to say they have never been found here. Typically when they have been found it was through being transported here as a stowaway with someone who has been where they do occur. Link goes to page with descriptions for identifying Maryland Spiders, but not many images.
I feel like we need to post this pic along with every 'Murican dagger moth that gets posted here...lol..
The purple color may not be from injury but from a recent molt - the newly-revealed exoskeleton may be more translucent, allowing you to see the purplish blood through the skin.
Just updated the main link: http://campl.us/kRXsBkQ4QU8
Sorry for the terrible quality, my iPhone doesn't want to focus today. Does that help?
I went back to take more pics and saw that the bug was still alive. That got me!
I think it's a leaf-footed bug rather than an assassin bug. Here is a quite similar looking one, though not exactly the same.
here it is with motion: https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif/ezgif-5-7747d7800e.mp4 (I have it in a glass container for now). I've gotten lyme disease few years ago already so a bit wary with whatever this tick (and maybe others I haven't found yet?!) could carry. It doesn't look too fed so far I guess?
Good point, poor wording on my part.
From my understanding, drilling is a somewhat slow process in species that have longer tails, so my thought is that you would react to the sting before they got very far, and jostling the tail between your skin and clothes might cause some damage.
A cursory search led me to the abstract of this paper discussing the nature of venom in Megarhyssa species. I have to admit I am far from an expert in the matter, but it looks to be similar to the venom of other Hymenopteran species with a cocktail of wood-dissolving enzymes slapped in. I have no idea what that would do to human flesh, but it sounds like a sting one would notice.
Yeah, black widows almost always have a red hourglass on the underside of their abdomen. It's pretty apparent if you can get a look at their underside.
I'm pretty sure, based on overall size and leg-to-body proportion, that your black spider is a false widow, Steatoda grossa, and not a real one.
You're also too far north for a brown widow, so the other spider is likely some other kind of cobweb spider, although I really couldn't say more than that based on these photos.
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This IGR is amazing! I recommend buying it since it completely makes it so they can't reproduce and the nymphs won't grow into adults! Just one of these bad boys covers 75 sq ft so the roaches don't even have to be that close to it to be affected!
And to he safe you can put one in different places throughout your house/apartment so you can rid yourself of them with a lot more ease!
Common pest deterrents are tea tree, peppermint, lemongrass, eucalyptus, and lemon oil. Just be careful where you use it if you have pets.
We use lemon oil to treat our wood floors, and it happens to also be an excellent bug killer/repellent (the ONLY thing that keeps out the ants). I'd imagine it would also be good for the wicker baskets while making them inedible by bugs for awhile.
Blatella Germanica, aka the German cockroach. Now these have become quite notorious in the pest world as being some of the fastest adapting and reproducing species... But! Not to worry! An exterminator will charge you $75 for a perimeter spray, which is about as effective as spraying raid like lysol and it will not contact kill or kill the colony. A relatively new product that has worked wonders for many people due to its highly attractive bait matrix and domino like effect on roaches who feed on the dead roaches is Syngenta’s Advion.
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My grandmother has used it before but for an Oriental roach problem and it got rid of all of them and they stayed gone, its also rated for german roaches.
This video tells you how to use this product for German roaches. Hope this helps! :)
Had the exact same thing happen to me a couple of years back in western PA, in a bag of cat food. We’ve been dealing with those damn moths ever since!
They get fewer and fewer in numbers each Spring, but they’re horrible. We’ve set glue traps everywhere and have to keep any grains in the refrigerator. My stomach turned the first time I opened a can of oatmeal (previously opened, not newly) and those freaking moths flew out.
We were told ours are called “Indian Meal Moths,” which seems right based off of photos, but ours came out of a Purina Cat chow, specifically:
Purina One Naturals, Low Fat Weight Control..
We still buy it because it’s the one they tolerate the best and it’s affordable, but you definitely have to watch out!
A few years ago I was in apartment complex that became infested after new tenants moved in next door. Went from a few days apart to seeing them crawling up the walls on broad daylight real fast. I think I still have lowkey PTSD from that experience because I jump every time I see a dark spot in my peripheral vision. The complex sprayed after I reported it, but to really clear it, every unit in the building would have needed to be bombed at the same time with rigorous follow up sprays.
Dude if you can get out of your lease at this point, I think it might save you from the horrors these little bastards bring with them. In the meantime, put these things in every corner, under every appliance, in the kitchen cabinets and anywhere you have seen one.
So sorry you are dealing with this.
If you're in the market for a spider book, I LOVE Spiders of North America by Sarah Rose. It's got a lot more information than most field guides I've seen, as well as pictures of both males and females and also immatures and egg sacs for a lot of the species.
I don't know that it's necessarily for beginners, but I LOVE Spiders of North America by Sarah Rose. It's got a lot more information than most field guides I've seen, as well as pictures of both males and females and also immatures and egg sacs for a lot of the species.
Like everyone else said: tapeworm segment. You can get over the counter tapeworm medicine at most supermarkets or go to your vet. You should also thoroughly inspect your cat for fleas since fleas are the most common vector for tapeworms. I highly suggest getting your flea medication from your vet, and if you’re in the US, avoid Hartz as they have a track record of causing seizures and death. I’ve used this dewormer before with results on my cats.
Hit all of your drains (shower, bathroom sink, kitchen sink, etc) with this. Sometimes it doesn't come with a little straw to get it into garbage disposals, so you might need to improvise.
Nope. This is one bug. I've gotten the same insect 5 times in the past 6 months. They don't disengage, Here's a video.
Nope. This is one bug. I've gotten the same insect 5 times in the past 6 months. They don't disengage, Here's a video.
I’m attaching a pic of industrial roll plastic wrap. I got some DM’s and so I thought I’d share this but of info. If you have a couch or a side chair, rug etc. that you can’t or don’t want to throw away or got second hand this is an approach… though the wrap is not cheap. I use this wrap to store items in my shed even a king mattress. Cover the item in Sevin dusting powder. Let it sit for as many days as you can. You can use diatomaceous earth too but wait time is much longer, like a month and it not as effective. You want to vacuum the item thoroughly outside. Clean that vacuum, dump the bag, or if it’s bag less canister wash out the canister clean the filters. I use a air hose to spray out the hose and rollers. Re-dust with Sevin. Wrap the item with the plastic as tight as possible and then layers of over wrapping. I’d leave it outside but I know not everyone can do this. Wait at least a week.I did this to an antique rug that got fleas from a visiting dog. Unwrap and vacuum item again. Clean vacuum again to be safe. Also bag clothes after and shower if possible. It’s a lot of work and not cheap which is why most people just throw things away. Not everyone can afford to replace or item has sentimental or antique value
https://www.amazon.com/Stretch-Wrap-Industrial-Strength-1100/dp/B06Y1HSFVH
this stuff really works, and is amazing.
But look into it, the regular pellet pistol is a lot cheaper and compatible with the salt pellets.
Research diatomaceous earth, put a firewall around your bed and in between your mattress of this stuff. Put diatomaceous earth in all the typical spots you would find them. Buy the EXPENSIVE pesticide on Amazon, I think it's like $50.00 a bottle, but it works. Hope this was just a single bug and no friends. If you get into a nightmare scenario, message me. I can help you with the treatment. I've gotten rid of heavy bedbug infestations without losing any furniture and the treatment is effective.
I recommend getting this it really helped me to control the problem I had.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NBVSRG8?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Get one of these thermal strike bug heating things. Order it to your house and heat all your items before bringing them inside your house. Bag all your items into trash bags before putting them into your car too.
Looks like scolytidae (bark beetles). Some examples here: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Bark-Beetles-%28Coleoptera%3A-Scolytidae%29-of-the-Mifsud-Kn%C3%AD%C5%BEek/947bdfebfd81105fd8fa81cbc4f53e86238e84c2
iNaturalist has an app that will let you use their "computer vision" auto-ID and post your observations for people to review / correct / narrow down IDs on.
Please note that algorithmic / "AI" identification of insects can be less reliable than it would be for many birds, and you should use any computer-suggested ID as a starting point for further research, not a definite ID. Many insect species are not photo-identifiable and it may only be possible to ID them to genus or even family from a photo.
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For the walls, I bought a handheld that has a hose and a bunch of attachments. I think I got it at Walmart.
Use this. exactly as directed. they’ll be gone in no time. give it about a month, so it can really get all life stages. because when you spray there’s gonna be females that have eggs, and it’ll take time for them to be poisoned and all that. but we had a bad infestation. our neighbors didn’t treat so we could never fully get rid of ours but i rarely saw any still once we got this. i went from seeing 10 an hour to not even 5 a month. and if i saw 5, 3 were dead.
I've had good luck with keeping pests off of my tomatoes, limes, cucumbers, and squash (the smaller ones) using satin drawstring bags (like this). They've got lots of tiny holes so air passes through no problem, they're pretty cheap, and most have lasted a few years.
They need water, and they’re breeding somewhere. The gnats are annoying, but the bigger worry is that you have standing water somewhere, probably under your bathroom if you have a crawl space. Check that first.
I’ve had great success with these: Stingmon 12 Pack Sticky Fruit Fly... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XLM4FWL?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
But they’re made to go in plants. Maybe something similar to sit on floor/shelf? But like I said, if there’s standing water, you’ll just be fighting a losing battle until you address that issue. Fwiw, apple cider vinegar, or those little gnat traps - don’t work
I understand. I’m no expert but just seeing these in person it looks like a robber fly to me personally. The long tapered abdomen, humpback, hairy face/back, pointy proboscis, and thinly folded wings, are some characteristics I see here that are found in Robber Flies. There are over 1,000 species of Robber Flies, so they come in a very wide range of colors and morphology. I don’t know enough to give you the correct species but I linked some more pictures below to compare.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/macro-photography-orange-robber-fly-on-1484630786
I'm sorry I did not mean to imply the ant pictured in the bugguide link I provided is the same species as the bug you found, it was just meant to serve as an example. Here is a photo to show you what a red carpenter ant alate would look like, and here are some nice photos of red carpenter ants where you can clearly see they have small hairs or fuzz on their body segments.
- Buy a bedbug mattress cover.
- Buy a bedbug mattress treatment kit and put all your bedding and clothes in it for 1 week in a well-ventilated and non-living area. https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Shot-Mattress-Luggage-Treatment/dp/B00AA8WQZO?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
- Move your things away from the wall so the exterminator can get everywhere easily.
I have been successful with these Sticky Stiks traps put into soil that they may be breeding in, and (presently, as I have a new fruit fly problem that emerged recently) put near a small dish of apple cider vinegar and also some fruit peels, before:
https://www.amazon.ca/Safers-Houseplant-Sticky-Stakes-Insect/dp/B00GYBCZN4
You will need to clean up the drains of decaying organic material and any fermenting or overripe fruit as they like to lay their eggs in those areas and will keep coming back no matter how many your trap.
You can also get some good ideas from Shawn Wood's video trying to find the best fruit fly trap, here: https://youtu.be/GbSjj-amZ-0
Good luck! They aren't hard to get under control, in my experience.
get this. mix it EXACTLY as it says and not when rain is coming. if you have an apartment, you’ll not get rid of them unless others treat but this will keep 97% out. we lived in a trailer and the landlords bombed it to hell before we moved it which killed hardly any and just drove them to hide.. 3 days later they came out in full force. i found out that professionals use cykick so i got it. since everyone around us had them, which we didn’t know at first, they never fully went away but i rarely saw one. maybe like once a week as opposed to 5 an hour.
Thanks! I trapped it in a tape bubble and photoed it with this iPhone macro lens attachment. I’m not an affiliate, and FWIW I broke the clip on it by taking it off too roughly. But otherwise it was pretty good.
For a bit more context: yes I know yellow jackets are a type of wasp. But all of the wasp traps for sale specify for either yellowjackets OR paper wasps. I’m from Florida where the paper wasps are red and have longer petioles so it’s easier to tell the difference. But with the ones here in Nebraska I can’t tell if these wasps are yellowjackets or paper wasps.
Here's the 2 products I used last year to get rid of them: Raid Foaming Spray
First i vacuumed EVERYTHING. In my case they were on my headboard and I actually had to take the bedframe apart since these bastards were hiding in the tiniest crevices. Then I sprayed everything with the Raid Foaming Spray. After I let that dry I sprinkled the cimexa powder in every corner and around the bed. I suggest wearing mask. Also a Powder Duster makes it easier to apply. My understanding is that the chemicals in these 2 products are used by professional exterminators. I've seen some people suggest Diatomaceous Earth. The problem is that it takes many hours to kill the bug once the bug comes into contact with it. The Cimexa kills them much faster.
Also, do they bite? I have multiple bites around my ankles and just on me in general. I keep a clean apartment.
I bought this and these (and others) have been caught in the last three days.
as well as these. honestly don’t know how well these worked. never remembered to look to see if any roaches were at it. in the trash can outside i know they ate it though. we moved into a really nice trailer. found out there were roaches 3 days after move in day. landlords were shitty af. there was also mold they knew about and said nothing knowing i was in and out of the hospital already with PE. ANYWAY.