Can anyone tell me what these were? One was about an inch long and 1/2 inch wide. It was all white and mushy looking, it's body shaped similar to an ant and it had claws. The other one was about an inch square and it's back was metallic looking, blue, green and yellow.  It's inderside was black  It looked similar to a stag beetle, but was square, not oblong. Both of these were found in the San Joaquin Valley, near Fresno and Merced. No one I have shown them to can identify them -
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The first was a large termite, perhaps a male, which are rare except during the mating time-they are white, very similar to ants, and have a much softer body.\nThe second was likely some species of dung beetle, which are common in that area, and can be quite colorful
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http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~gilbert/research/fireants/faqans.html\nhttp://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/l-2061.html
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they are either butterflies\n\n\n\nThis butterfly's common name is an allusion to the polygamy formerly practiced by members of the Mormon religion. Harish Gaonkar, of the Natural History Museum in London, writes that "the origins of giving common English names to organisms, particularly butterflies for tropical species started in India around the mid 19th century ... The naming of Mormons evolved slowly. I think the first to get such a name was the Common Mormon (Papilio polytes), because it had three different females, a fact that could only have been observed in the field, and this they did in India. The name obviously reflected the ... Mormon sect in America, which as we know, practiced polygamy\n\n\nor an insect looking like a cricket\n\nThe Mormon cricket (Anabrus simplex) is a shieldbacked katydid, and not a cricket at all. They are large insects that can grow to almost three inches in length. Mormon crickets live throughout western North America in rangelands dominated by sagebrush and forbs. It is flightless, but capable of traveling up to two kilometers a day in its swarming phase, during which it is a serious agricultural pest
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I can't quite tell from the pictures, but it looks like they might be the nymphs of boxelder bugs (Boisea trivittatis).  They are harmless bugs that feed on maple trees, but sometimes wander into people's homes in large numbers looking for a place to overwinter.\n\nI have never seen eggs like that for boxelder bugs though.  Boxelder bug eggs are usually a rather scattered spattering of eggs on the underside of a maple leaf somewhere.  So they could be something else, like a milkweed bug, or possibly even a Coreid (which do often lay their eggs in a linear row like that).  Coreids are predatory, and can actually inflict a rather nasty bite if handled (one bite I received from a tiny nymph was actually much more painful than any wasp sting I've ever gotten).\n\nCheck out the True Bugs pages on this site:  http://whatsthatbug.com/ for some images that might give you a better idea of what you have there.
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I have an insect but I don't know its name, too.\nIt likes a dragonfly but It is yellow, it's smaller than dragonfly. The hind wings are smaller than the fore wings so I think it's ont a dragonfly. It has 3 pairs of legs and It has a long pair of antennae on its head. It looks like a mayfly but It doesn't have the antennae after the abdomen.\nAccording to that, maybe a damfly.
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Contact this guy, "the Bug Man".  You can send him a description of the bug--even better, send him a photo.  He'll let you know what he thinks it is.
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Here are two links. The first dscribes it's taxonomical charicteristics, the second link has pictures.\n\nGood Luck.
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I was going to suggest the same site that Haysoos posted. So I'll just second his advice :-)\nHere are other useful sites for insect identification:\nhttp://www.einsteins-emporium.com/life/animal-info/insects/insect_identification.htm\nhttp://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/bugid.html\n\nHere's more information on predatory wasps:\nhttp://www.geocities.com/brisbane_wasps/StingingWasps.htm\n\nAnd many spider-eating wasps belong to family Pompilidae. Here's some info and photos, just in case the one you saw is one of these:\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/3919
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I have no idea what an earth baby is.  How large is this critter?  Where have you seen it?  Where do you live?  \n\nI can't think of anything off the top of my head that sounds even vaguely like the critter you're describing.\n\nThe only common household 'pest' I can think of with pincers like a crab or scorpion is a pseudoscorpion.  \n\nPseudoscorpions are quite harmless, and actually very useful in your garden.  I used to get them all the time in my bathroom, but where I live now I don't them that often.  They are only a few millimeters across, and cannot harm humans, and don't get into our food.\n\nhttp://whatsthatbug.com/pseudoscorpion.html - This site has some very good pictures of pseudoscorpions, and if that's not what they are, you may be able to find your critter in their excellent galleries.
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Hi!\nI found an ads posted by Jerry from Washington , USA who said he offers all types of insects for sale both dried and live. Beetles, Millipeds & Centipedes, Roaches, Trantulas, Butterflies, Praying Mantis, Scorpions, Stick Insects.etc. This may give you some help. His e-mail address: jerryjanson2006@yahoo.com\n\nGood luck!♥
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I think that gentleman is right about them being powder beetles. Here's more information on them.
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Your bug is probably from the family Cerambycidae, long horned beetles.  They usually have a long antennae, and sport at least one horn.  There are Lepturinae (members of the Cerambycidae family) which feed on flowers, they are usually green but can have a red or black body as well - sport a large singular horn and feed on flower pollen.  Their larvae will infest and eat dead wood or things like your fence.  \n\nUnfortunately - and most likely, you have found an Asian Long Horned Beetle (especially since you mentioned that specific region) and not a Lepturinae.  They are an environmentally dangerous and non native species that has a long horn and usually a metallic green and gold body or one that is black with stripes of silver.  About 46 of their 50 subspecies are the colours you described.  Sadly, they devour just about everything and wreak havoc on trees.  \n\nIt could also be the Shining Leaf Chafer, related to scarabs (they look an awful lot like an overgrown June Bug) they are a golden green colour that shimmers and glitters just like metal, or a nice paint job, but they usually don't have a horn.  \n\nHopefully that helps you some.
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a bit more description would be helpful. \nbut I suspect that it may have been a bug not a beetle. \n\nDo the images on this website look similar to your bug?\nhttp://eny3005.ifas.ufl.edu/lab1/Hemiptera/Pentatomid.htm\nyou can also type in stink bug in google image\n\nif not, go to the library and check out an insect guide and look through the pics
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Tough it is a bit late, its not unheard of, as long as they don't freeze  they can survive just with a somewhat slow metalbolism, its been a rather warm Nov in the north east which may account for this, once the temp really plummets they will stop appearing. If its the ones shaped like a T its probably a plume moth, if not its probably some type of noctuid.
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Theres loads of types of beetles so because they're different sizes and shapes!!They weigh different ha now what do you know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hard to say from that photo. You really need a side view or 3/4 view as well. The detail just isn't even clear enough to whether it's a beetle, a bug or a moth from that photograph.
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Just look anywhere in the sky. I saw one about an hour ago, but that was after an hour of looking. Normally you can't see them until after midnight, but unfortunately the predicted swarm only lasts about an hour and will end before midnight in the US. Europe should get a good view though.