Natural Science Forum / Biology / Entomology / December 2005

Need help identifying critter in small infestation of my house. From
surfing, I think it's a pseudoscorpion. Please see photo at
http://home.gwi.net/~reschkes/pseudoscorpion.jpg
Those are millimeters depicted in the photo.

Does anyone know what type of fly this
http://www.deviantart.com/view/25918429/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/25918740/ is? I (wrongly) identified it
as a robber fly at first but don't know what it really is.  Also, if

I believe Dr. Phillip Callahan is a physicist. I was told that back in
the 1930's he publised some data in an optics journal (of all places)
that allegedly supported the idea that male moths do not detect
pheromones chemically, but instead the antennae are sensitive to IR

I'm hoping someone may have encountered what I am describing and
offer some suggestions.
These first appeared in a fitted wardrobe but have now spread to the
kitchen, they are smaller than grains of sugar, perhaps a little larger

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I've had paper wasps on my balcony for years and years.  They're
usually all gone by Thanksgiving.  Then I remove the nest and they
re-build the following Spring.
Today, I went out and removed the nest (assuming that the one wasp that