Insect Identity Blog #
Notes from the people who build Insect Identity, the free app that names a bug from a photo using a model that runs on your phone, with no signal and no account needed. These posts answer the identifications people search for at midnight: what’s biting at night, which spider is which, whether the beetle in the pantry matters. When an answer affects your health or your money, we send you to extension services, CDC and poison control rather than guessing.
Start here #
- What Is This Bug in My House? — the common indoor insects sorted by room, size and shape.
- What Bug Is This? How to Identify a Bug by Photo — the four-step process, from the photo to a confirmed name.
- How to Photograph a Bug for Identification — the step that decides whether any app or expert can help you.
- Tiny Black Bugs in Bed — carpet beetles, fleas and bed bug signs, and how to tell them apart.
- Bed Bug vs Carpet Beetle — the mix-up that changes what you do next.
- Brown Recluse vs Wolf Spider — eyes, legs and range, plus why most recluse sightings aren’t.
- What Bugs Bite at Night? — reading bite patterns and where you sleep.
- Deer Tick vs Dog Tick — size, markings and what each one carries.
- Best Insect Identification App — iNaturalist, Seek, Google Lens, Picture Insect and ours, compared honestly.
- How Accurate Are Insect Identification Apps? — what a confidence score means, and when to ask a person.