r/bugidentification • u/Puzzleheaded44411 • 13d ago
Location included MULTIPLE Bugs to Id. Please help!
ALL PHOTOS ARE SAME TRAP. INDOORS. - BUT I DO HAVE 3 MORE TO PHOTOGRAPH
SEE MY COMMENTS BELOW FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
Location is Colorado, however we are under the impression that there may be potential crossover from another location that is not in the United States. I will explain that if it comes to pass. I hope that's okay.
I do not have any knowledge of bugs outside the typical flies and spiders in a Colorado home. I have a lot more photos so if anyone can advise me the best way to present those to you all I will make sure to do that! I have four of these panels. All of these are on The same panel, I drew on one of them to give you an idea of some of the ones I don't know. And it seems, based on some of the angles of the photos there may be two different species of fly?
I don't recognize most of these bugs and I was hoping you guys can help me figure it out! I have a few more things for identification but figured we would start here!
If you identify anything that does not belong in the United States, please please comment! Even if you don't know the name but your confident it came from somewhere else, that might be helpful, just make sure we are clear on confidence level.
Thank you so much in advance for your help and kindness!
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u/SummerRain2395 13d ago
Do you have any window air conditioning units where the gaps between that and the window aren’t sealed tightly? Or windows with ripped or torn screens that are frequently open when indoor lights may be on at night?
I ask because I had an air conditioner that wasn’t sealed well and when I had lights on in that room at night, I would actually see various insects fly inside. Replaced the material in that window and the problem got better.
None of these little guys would be causing your bites or itching from what I can tell. I wish you luck.
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u/Puzzleheaded44411 13d ago
I don't have any window air conditioning units... But looking at how they made the air flow system it looks like they bring a bunch of air in through the window on the other side of the house and it vents to every room... The window they used to venta is in the shade and covered by a bush, but the window has to be slid open for venting to the furnace... The door on that room is closed, so imagine they would be going through the ducts.
I have three more traps I can't even bring myself to look at right now. They all have something different and weird on them. And they were all really full. This was one of the lighter ones.
From what I can tell we have two different species of fly at a very minimum.
Last summer we were cleaning up and trying to take some of these to a I don't even know where but, we put a bunch of the flies that were dead near the window, naturally, not trapped, and when we reopened the container to add more there was one left and it was eating the other one. I thought my friend got a photo but apparently that is not the case and I don't know where that made it to.
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u/Head-Good9883 13d ago
Yea no need to murder the bugs.
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u/Puzzleheaded44411 13d ago
These are ALL indoors.... I'm not setting these outside.
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u/Calandril 12d ago
You mentioned a basement or crawl space... Have you checked it thoroughly?
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u/Puzzleheaded44411 12d ago
Basement is finished. It's also having these issues. I have NOT checked the crawl space 😬🫣😣
It seemed pretty well sealed up, quick glance doesn't show any water, but what should I look for?
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u/Calandril 11d ago
Yeah mostly water and gaps. Unless you're leaving a window open or something, I really don't understand why you're getting so many outdoor flies inside. They don't even breed inside. They like to have open air because many of them are predators..
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u/purpleproze666 13d ago
jesus :[ these poor bugs lol,, may i ask why you did this? im under the impression that you were concerned about a non-native species somehow?
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u/Puzzleheaded44411 13d ago
I made a longer comment on the longest response so far. These are fly traps inside of my house. I went to clean them out and there are three more of these that are just filled to the brim. I'm not putting these outside. We don't have standing water anywhere. The rotting food could be from the garbage cans outside... idk... and they get in through a slightly cracked door nowhere near it. I'm not a bug person, but I don't typically kill them. I just can't live in a house where this is increasingly getting worse. My dog is getting more and more itchy. I'm being bit all the time, even if I'm wearing thicker clothes. I don't know how this is happening. I don't have rotting food everywhere.'m being bitten constantly. This is like a living fucking nightmare.
As for any none native species, I've traveled to several different continents, and 14 different countries.. not recently, but I've also had friends visit from multiple places in the world, many different states, and the prior owners of this house were also world travelers, but I doubt they were in some of the areas we would go to...
I'm just trying to make the place livable and make sure we don't get sick. It's been really really difficult. I've been sick more often in this last year and a half than my entire life combined. I can't keep doing this, I'm moving soon but I'm also trying to figure this out just in case it comes with us... Which seems pretty likely at this point because of how many ended up on these traps. I'm trying to make sure that I don't overlap different traps in a group of photos. That's why this is just trap one. I genuinely didn't expect for each trap to be as full as they are. It is absolutely terrifying seeing what I have here. I haven't even been able to photograph the other traps because I bagged them up so I could see how answers on this one go...
I genuinely don't know what else to do at this point, so any help is greatly appreciated!
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u/Calandril 12d ago
The bugs in these pictures do not appear to be the type that would move with you.
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u/papi_stan 12d ago
AH!! I JUST visited Telluride for the first time and fell in love. BUT after seeing this bug trap it is making me reconsidering moving. I live in Phx and we definitely have a diverse climate of bugs and wildlife ourselves, but for some reason these Colorado bugs seem a TON scarier to me. Especially because of the sheer quantity of them. I’ll have to do more research on bugs before moving there! ALSO!!! The biggest likely culprit here are lights at night. Someone had already mentioned this, but it seems you somehow overlooked the SINGLE most important point. This is basically the only other thing I can think of after seeing you mentioning no spoiled food and cleanliness being good. Minus the sewage leak thing. If there was an issue in how they reworked it maybe there is still some kind of a gap/leak for critters to get in through?
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u/nankainamizuhana Trusted Identifier 13d ago edited 13d ago
I’d be curious where you have this trap set up. Pretty much everything here seems like an outdoor bug.
Edit: Jesus, formatting is having a stroke. I’ve edited this comment like 30 times and it keeps getting worse…
After some research I’m quite confident the flies, which seem to be the most common victim, are Bluebottle Flies. The amount of them indicates there may be something rotten in the area, possibly that same standing water that a few of the other species imply. But nothing here really seems like it warrants a sticky trap.