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2. 11 common bug bites — and photos to help you identify them

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   What they look like: Chiggers, a type of small mite, typically leave clusters of bites that are often very itchy. In many cases, chigger bites appear as small, red and itchy bumps. Sometimes, they ...

3. Bookworm (insect) - Wikipedia

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   Bookworm is a general name for any insect that is said to bore through books. [1] [2] The damage to books that is commonly attributed to "bookworms" is often caused by the larvae of various types of insects, including beetles, moths, and cockroaches, which may bore or chew through books seeking food.

4. Pyrrhocoris apterus - Wikipedia

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   Easily recognizable due to its striking red and black coloration, it may be confused with the similarly coloured though unrelated Corizus hyoscyami (cinnamon bug or squash bug). [a] [1] Pyrrhocoris apterus is distributed throughout the Palaearctic from the Atlantic coast of Europe to northwest China. It has also been reported from the United ...

5. Hemiptera - Wikipedia

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   Many insects with "bug" in their common name, especially in American English, belong to other orders; for example, the lovebug is a fly [9] and the Maybug and ladybug are beetles. [10] The term is occasionally extended to colloquial names for freshwater or marine crustaceans (e.g. Balmain bug , Moreton Bay bug , mudbug ) and used by physicians ...

6. Armadillidiidae - Wikipedia

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   Other common names include slaters, potato bugs, butchy boys, [3] and doodle bugs. [4] Most species are native to the Mediterranean Basin, while a few species have wider European distributions. The best-known species, Armadillidium vulgare , was introduced to New England in the early 19th century and has become widespread throughout North America.

7. Silverfish - Wikipedia

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   The essential oil of the Japanese cedar Cryptomeria japonica has been investigated as a repellent and insecticide against L. saccharinum, with promising results: filter paper impregnated with oil repelled 80% of silverfish at a gas concentration of 0.01 mg/cm 3, and an exposure of 0.16 mg/cm 3 for 10 hours caused a 100% mortality rate.

8. Jerusalem cricket - Wikipedia

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   Jerusalem crickets (or potato bugs) [1] are a group of large, flightless insects in the genera Ammopelmatus and Stenopelmatus, together comprising the tribe Stenopelmatini. The former genus is native to the western United States and parts of Mexico , while the latter genus is from Central America .

9. Scutelleridae - Wikipedia

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   Scutelleridae is a family of true bugs.They are commonly known as jewel (stink) bugs or metallic shield bugs due to their often brilliant coloration. With the name based on the Asian genus Scutellera, they are also known as shield-backed bugs due to the enlargement of the thoracic scutellum into a continuous shield over the abdomen and wings. [1]