The pest identification guides on this site are illustrated with three kinds of photograph: original work contributed to us by photographers, photographs taken by our own technicians on jobs across the Miami Valley, and freely licensed images from Wikimedia Commons. This page credits everyone whose work appears here.
Contributing photographers
Deborah Tustin — original macro photography of the insects, spiders and rodents of eastern Ohio, contributed to us and used with her permission. Where you see a photograph on this site that is sharper and better lit than it has any right to be, it is probably hers.
Photographs taken by our own technicians are not listed individually — those are our own work. Where a caption says a photo was found or taken on a Dayton-area job, it is ours.
Every credited image
Licenses represented: CC BY-SA 4.0 (81), Public domain (79), CC BY 2.0 (63), CC BY-SA 3.0 (54), CC0 (28), CC BY-SA 2.0 (20), CC BY 4.0 (18), CC BY 3.0 (13), CC BY-SA 2.5 (12), CC BY 3.0 us (6), CC BY 2.5 (6), GFDL 1.2 (4), Used with permission (2), Attribution (2), FAL (2), Copyrighted free use (1), GFDL (1), No restrictions (1), CC BY-SA 2.5 ca (1). Each license name in the table links to its full terms. If you are a photographer listed here and would like a credit corrected, worded differently, or an image removed, email office@greaterdaytonpest.com and we will take care of it promptly.
| Image | Photographer | License |
|---|---|---|
| A barn owl – the unpaid rodent control that secondary poisoning takes off the payroll | Dfpindia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A bed bug nymph – the translucent walker whose only travel plan is your luggage and its own six feet | β | Public domain |
| A bed bug nymph, the translucent immature stage most often missed during an inspection | CDC Public Health Image Library | Public domain |
| A biting midge (no-see-um) feeding – the tiny fly that actually bites | Dunpharlain | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A black ant tending aphids for honeydew — the sugar economy that sends worker ants marching into kitchens | Jules Verne Times Two | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A brown recluse — uniform tan-brown, six eyes in three pairs, and the famous violin mark behind the head | Conway Hawn | CC BY 4.0 |
| A bumble bee buried in a bloom — buzz pollination at work, a trick honey bees literally cannot perform | Mari-Ann Petersen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A carpet beetle larva on the move – the slow, fuzzy trundle that separates it from every genuine bed pest | David Short from Windsor | CC BY 2.0 |
| A cat mid-groom — the reason flea evidence vanishes: cats swallow the fleas and the flea dirt before you can finβ¦ | TeamK (Karin Laurila) https://pixabay.co | CC0 |
| A cellar spider in its loose tangle web – the messy architecture that catches fungus gnats by the hundred | David Short from Windsor | CC BY 2.0 |
| A cluster fly, the sluggish attic fly that appears by the dozens at Ohio windows in fall and winter | DidierFy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A cockroach nymph – a baby cockroach, wingless and fast | Bigcee007 | CC BY 4.0 |
| A cockroach nymph, the wingless growth stage that molts its way to adulthood over weeks to months | Bigcee007 | CC BY 4.0 |
| A common eastern firefly mid-glow — cold light from a chemical reaction that wastes almost no energy as heat | art farmer from evansville indiana | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| A European hornet with captured prey — Ohio’s only true hornet, an inch-plus of reddish-brown night-flyer | Richard Bartz | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| A fed bed bug nymph — each of its five growth stages leaves behind a translucent cast skin, the corroborating evβ¦ | β | Public domain |
| A female European earwig — the straighter pincers mark her sex, and neither sex can meaningfully hurt you with tβ¦ | Charles J. Sharp | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A female hobo spider in detail – note the plain legs; banded legs on your basement spider acquit it immediately | GΓ©ry PARENT | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A female taking a blood meal – not food but egg protein, the exception that gets all the attention | Muhammad Mahdi Karim | GFDL 1.2 |
| A female wolf spider carrying her spiderlings on her abdomen, photographed head-on with her eye arrangement visible | Deborah Tustin | Used with permission |
| A field ant – the carpenter look-alike whose notched profile and lawn mounds keep it on the tolerance tier | Bruce Marlin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| A field ant mound in turf – the lawn colony that farms your landscape whether or not you ever see it indoors | Jay Sturner from USA | CC BY 2.0 |
| A firefly larva feeding on a snail — the glowworm stage spends two years hunting slugs and snails in your soil | Dr. Raju Kasambe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A fishing spider guarding her nursery web β the devoted-mother chapter of Ohio’s most alarming spider | Paul Harrison | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A flea in side profile – the laterally flattened, spring-loaded silhouette every identification starts from | Michael Wunderli | CC BY 2.0 |
| A flea larva β the bristle-worm stage living deep in carpet and pet bedding, eating flea-dirt | Alan R Walker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A flea larva — the carpet-dwelling stage that anchors an infestation to floors and pet zones, never to beds | Alan R Walker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A flea under museum magnification – bristle combs, armored plates, and the jumping legs in full detail | Anagoria | CC BY 3.0 |
| A fly ovipositing within minutes of finding a source β the speed that makes fly eggs a same-day problem | Lindemom1 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A foraging cockroach — the disease story is transportation, not venom: whatever the route touched, the roach delβ¦ | Rajaguru M P G | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A German cockroach carrying its egg case, the ootheca that lets one female found a kitchen-wide population | β | Public domain |
| A German cockroach caught in daylight – the crowding signal that changes what your infestation means | Clemson University β USDA Cooperative Ex | CC BY 3.0 us |
| A gnat swarm at dusk – days-long adult lives spent almost entirely on this one aerial errand | β | Public domain |
| A grass spider’s funnel sheet silvering a dewy lawn – the harmless architecture of every September morning | Tony Atkin | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| A great black wasp nectaring on flowers β where you will almost always see one, doing pollinator work | Insects Unlocked | CC0 |
| A head louse — hook-clawed and built to grip hair shafts, everything a bed bug is not | Gilles San Martin | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| A hoar-frosted orb web – the abandoned architecture of a spider that ended with the season, eggs banked for spring | Kolforn (Kolforn) Iβd appreciate if you | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A Hogna wolf spider at ground level – the fast floor-crosser whose control program starts with doors, not sprays | Tanya Paez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A honey bee mid-sting — the barbed shaft anchors and keeps pumping venom until it’s scraped away | Waugsberg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A hotel headboard under treatment – the five-minute check’s primary target | NY State IPM Program at Cornell Univers | CC BY 2.0 |
| A house mouse abroad in daylight – the sighting that grades the population | Dion Art | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A house mouse among straw, ears and whiskers forward β the species behind nearly every report of mice in the walls | Deborah Tustin | Used with permission |
| A house mouse family at natural size β by the time young are visible, the next litter is already underway | β | Public domain |
| A house mouse on rough terrain – the grip that scales brick and siding | Jaco Grundling | CC0 |
| A house mouse with food secured β the motivation no scent product has ever outvoted | β | Public domain |
| A male eastern dobsonfly β the inch-long "tusks" are mating equipment too unwieldy to hurt anyone | β | Public domain |
| A male Oriental cockroach — wings cover three-quarters of the body but neither sex can fly a single inch | DimitΗr Boevski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A male stag beetle’s antler jaws β wrestling equipment for other males, theater for everyone else | β | Public domain |
| A march fly (Bibio) β the lovebug’s northern cousin, and what Ohioans actually see swarming in spring | Judy Gallagher | CC BY 2.0 |
| A masked hunter nymph in its dust disguise – the walking lint ball that hunts bed bugs indoors | Ian Alexander | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A millipede in its defensive coil – the spiral that settles the centipede question | Shyamli kashyap | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A mining bee returning to her lawn burrow – spring’s gentlest excavation | Sarah | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| A mold mite — visible only as moving dust, and always a symptom of damp feeding a film of mold | cgmayers | CC0 |
| A mole crab, the other creature called a sand flea β also completely harmless to people | jkirkhart35 | CC BY 2.0 |
| A mosquito and a biting midge side by side on skin β the size gap explains the "no-see-um" name | Dunpharlain | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A mosquito taking nectar – the actual daily diet of every mosquito, male and female alike | Abhishek727Abhishek Mishra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A mother mouse carrying a pup – five to eight per litter, a new litter every 25 days | uploader | Copyrighted free use |
| A mouse doing what mice actually do: eating seeds β the true staple, not cheese | β | Public domain |
| A mouse released outdoors after live capture | Szczureq | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A paper wasp – the umbrella-comb builder of the DIY-viable tier | Alvesgaspar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A paper wasp colony on its open comb – the golf-ball stage every May eave patrol hunts | Alvesgaspar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A paper wasp nectaring — long dangling legs and a slim orange-tinged body separate it from the stockier yellowjaβ¦ | RaminusFalcon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A paper wasp on its open umbrella comb – cells visible, no wrapper: the small-colony signature | Ermell | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A paper wasp on its open umbrella nest — every hexagonal cell visible, no paper envelope around it | Xorx | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A pavement ant sidewalk war – spring’s territorial battles in full swing | Chetvorno | CC0 |
| A red paper wasp (Polistes carolina) β rust-red body, dark wings, dangling legs in flight | Insects Unlocked | CC0 |
| A resting mayfly — the daylong adult act of a life spent one to two years underwater as a nymph | OliBac from FRANCE | CC BY 2.0 |
| A rice weevil on grain — the snout beetle that arrives already inside the kernels you bought | division | CC BY 3.0 |
| A silverfish — carrot-shaped, metallic, and three-tailed, running the same body plan it has used for 400 millionβ¦ | AJC ajcann.wordpress.com from UK | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| A silverfish up close — jaws built for scraping starch off paper, not for piercing skin | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A spent cockroach egg case — each German ootheca releases 30–40 nymphs, the arithmetic behind every kitcheβ¦ | β | Public domain |
| A spotted lanternfly nymph — the black bug with white spots that tops Ohio’s report-on-sight list | Rhododendrites | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A springtail – the moisture-bound jumper of basement floors and flowerpots | Alandmanson | CC BY 4.0 |
| A stink bug indoors in January – a wall-void sleeper that woke up on the warm side | Dldebertin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A stink bug nymph — the glands work from the first molt, which is why even the babies can perfume a windowsill | Yerpo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A support beam replaced after termite damage – sistering and replacement done right | β | Public domain |
| A sweat bee – the tiny salt-seeker of summer forearms | Insects Unlocked from USA | CC0 |
| A tamper-resistant rodent bait station – the last resort, properly housed | BrokenSphere | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A termite mud trail snaking across a surface — soil, saliva, and droppings built into a sealed commuter highway | Cody Hough | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A termite queen β the swollen egg engine at the center of every colony, and the only target that ends one | division | CC BY 3.0 |
| A thief ant — at a sixteenth of an inch, the smallest ant in Ohio kitchens, and the one sugar baits never touch | Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren | CC BY 2.0 |
| A tick under magnification – the forelegs carry the sensors that find you; the legs do the climbing, never leaping | Richard Bartz | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| A tick waiting on a grass blade – the ambush position; ticks cannot jump, fly, or drop from trees | Mcvoorhis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A true giant water bug – an aquatic hunter, not a roach | Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| A true locust swarm β grasshoppers transformed by crowding into the gregarious phase that darkens skies | Adam Matan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A true sand flea β the beach-hopping amphipod Talitrus saltator, which does not bite people | Arnold Paul / edit by Waugsberg | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| A true tarantula hawk β blue-black armor, amber wings, and the second-most-painful sting on Earth. Not an Ohio residenβ¦ | Coyote.F | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| A vented dirt-floor crawl space – the humidity engine under thousands of Ohio homes | TradeCrawlspaces | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A wheel bug dispatching a Japanese beetle – Ohio’s biggest assassin bug, on your garden’s payroll | Audrey from Central Pennsylvania | CC BY 2.0 |
| A white-footed mouse — the sharply two-toned, big-eyed native that garages and cabins meet in fall | NY State IPM Program at Cornell Univers | CC BY 2.0 |
| A winged alate: every spring swarmer is a queen or king candidate looking for a founding site | NY State IPM Program at Cornell Univers | CC BY 2.0 |
| A winged termite swarmer — the “black termite” of spring sightings, dark-bodied with four equal wingβ¦ | NY State IPM Program at Cornell Univers | CC BY 2.0 |
| A wolf spider ferrying her spiderlings – the famous exploding-mother moment awaiting anyone who squishes instead of cuβ¦ | Garst | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| A yellowjacket in flight — note the smooth, nearly hairless body and tucked legs that separate it from any bee | soebe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Acrobat ants – the heart-shaped abdomen held aloft when alarmed, the roster’s easiest party trick ID | Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Acrobat ants on the trail — the heart-shaped abdomen tips skyward like a scorpion’s tail when anything disβ¦ | Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Adult American cockroach with full wings – Ohio’s only real indoor flier | Gary Alpert | CC BY 2.5 |
| Adult bed bug – the seam-dweller an encasement locks out of the mattress | β | Public domain |
| Adult cat flea – the species behind nearly every Ohio flea infestation | Erturac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Adult female black widow showing the red hourglass | Shenrich91 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Adult German cockroach – the twin-striped kitchen species every roach campaign is really about | Clemson University β USDA Cooperative Ex | CC BY 3.0 us |
| Aerial view of Carlisle, Ohio on the Warren-Montgomery county seam | β | Public domain |
| Aerial view of I-75 at Tipp City, Ohio | formulanone from Huntsville | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Aerial view of Vandalia, Ohio and Dayton International Airport | β | Public domain |
| American cockroaches congregating – drain and sewer travelers that arrive by infrastructure | NY State IPM Program at Cornell Univers | CC BY 2.0 |
| American dog tick, Ohio’s most common tick | Jerry Kirkhart from Los Osos | CC BY 2.0 |
| An abandoned paper wasp nest under an eave – last year’s address, never reused but marking prime real estate | Ron Clausen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| An acrobat ant worker — the heart-shaped gaster, seen from above, is the one-glance identification | Jacy Lucier | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| An adult bed bug — apple-seed size and mahogany brown, the target of every mattress-seam inspection | β | Public domain |
| An adult mayfly — upright sail wings, long tail filaments, and no working mouth: it will never eat again | Richard Bartz | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| An adult spotted lanternfly — gray spotted forewings hiding the scarlet flash that shows in flight | Cbaile19 | CC0 |
| An adult velvet mite — the harmless, fully grown stage of the family whose larvae are the infamous chiggers | Luc Viatour | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| An Africanized honey bee — visually near-identical to the European honey bee in every Ohio backyard | β | Public domain |
| An American cockroach on dropped food — the same feet that walked the drain an hour ago | Usamanadda | CC0 |
| An American dog tick questing on vegetation – forelegs out, waiting for a host to brush past | β | Public domain |
| An ant worker in profile – the crop-and-gizzard anatomy the baking soda legend never checked | Richard Bartz | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| An eastern black carpenter ant forager β the night-shift target your bait has to intercept | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| An eastern cicada killer hauling a cicada — the Ohio giant behind nearly every local “murder hornet”β¦ | β | Public domain |
| An enclosed paper envelope nest – the big-colony architecture that means the job is not DIY | Martyn Gorman | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| An engine bay — warm after every drive, sheltered, and full of soft insulation: a parked car is a heated mouse cβ¦ | Steve Glover from Bolton | CC BY 2.0 |
| An ordinary honey bee swarm resting in a maple — docile, temporary, and the source of most “killer beeRβ¦ | T.Voekler | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Ants feeding on a liquid sugar source – the delivery mechanism borax baiting depends on | Rodrigo Menezes (IronMan Br) | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Ants recruiting to bait β the moment the trap starts working on the colony instead of the worker | USDA APHIS PPQ β Imported Fire Ant Stati | CC BY 3.0 us |
| Ants sharing food mouth-to-mouth (trophallaxis) β the shared stomach that colony life, and colony control, both run on | Vincnet41 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Ants swarming a sidewalk crack – the pavement colony at its August peak | Famartin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Ants tending their aphid herd for honeydew β the sugar economy that funds most ant colonies | β | Public domain |
| Asian tiger mosquito feeding – the daytime ankle specialist | β | Public domain |
| Asian tiger mosquito showing the white racing stripe and banded legs | β | Public domain |
| Baking soda – the pantry’s most famous pest folklore, tested | β | Public domain |
| Bald-faced hornet nest – the gray paper football of late summer | Rhododendrites | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Bed bug bites clustered around a wrist — raised red welts on skin that was exposed above the covers | Oliver Arend | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Bed bug evidence and shed skins along a mattress seam, the first place to check before treatment | NY State IPM Program at Cornell University | CC BY 2.0 |
| Bed bug infestation evidence on a mattress – what encasements make visible and survivable | Ventriloquist | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Bed bug nymph – the human specialist that never needed a mouse | β | Public domain |
| Biting midges (no-see-ums) feeding on human skin β barely visible individually, unmistakable in effect | Dunpharlain | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Blaberus giganteus, the giant cave cockroach – one of the world’s largest by length | β | Public domain |
| Black and yellow mud dauber – the thread-waisted solitary mason of porch ceilings | Didier Descouens | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Black ants tending their aphid herd – the honeydew economy that funds every kitchen expedition | Jules Verne Times Two | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Black rat in climbing territory – wires, limbs and rooflines are its commute | Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Blacklegged (deer) tick, Ohio’s Lyme disease carrier | β | Public domain |
| Blown attic insulation — a prairie-dog town waiting to happen: warm, deep, undisturbed, and directly above the kβ¦ | Jason Dale | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Body about three-eighths of an inch: a brown recluse spans a quarter to a half-dollar with legs extended | Annika Lindqvist | CC BY 4.0 |
| Bold jumping spider – Ohio’s black-and-white charmer with the green fangs | Kaldari | CC0 |
| Booklice under magnification — the pale speck-sized humidity pest behind most “white bugs on furnitureRβ¦ | division | CC BY 3.0 |
| Borax (sodium borate) crystals – the laundry aisle’s ant killer | β | Public domain |
| Boxelder bug adult and red nymph – the black-and-orange lineup’s most common answer in Ohio | Jesse Keith Huffman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Boxelder bug adults and red nymphs massed together – the summer nursery crowd | Viking6 (talk) 16:21 | CC BY 3.0 |
| Brown marmorated stink bug – the fall invader with the piercing straw, not jaws | Kramthenik27 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Caesar Creek Lake near Waynesville, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Camel cricket – the humpbacked basement jumper behind the “spricket” name | Katja Schulz from Washington | CC BY 2.0 |
| Carpenter ant galleries: smooth, clean, sandpapered tunnels β the structural stake behind the baiting question | Nwbeeson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Carpenter ant workers — the big black ants whose indoor presence can mean a nest in the structure | Jacy Lucier | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Chigger mites under magnification — at a hundredth of an inch, this is the only way anyone ever sees one | Michael Wunderli | CC BY 2.0 |
| Chinese praying mantis photographed in Ohio – the garden’s ambush celebrity | James St. John | CC BY 2.0 |
| Close-up of a moth fly showing the furry, moth-like wings | Martin Cooper from Ipswich | CC BY 2.0 |
| Close-up side view of a large field ant, the mound-building ant most often mistaken for a fire ant in Ohio | Richard Bartz | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| Clover mite beside a sewing needle tip – the windowsill’s tiny red bug | Raquel Baranow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Cluster fly – the sluggish attic overwinterer of sunny fall walls | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Cluster of red ant stings on human skin, the raised welts typical of a defensive attack | Alfred Buschinger | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Coarse steel wool β the classic gap-stuffing material mice genuinely will not chew through | Johan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Common green darner – Ohio’s big migratory dragonfly and champion mosquito hunter | Joshua Mayer from Madison | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Crane fly, the gangly “mosquito hawk” that neither bites nor hunts mosquitoes | Charles J. Sharp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Dark-winged fungus gnat, the houseplant gnat of overwatered soil | This image is created by user B. Schoenm | CC BY 3.0 |
| Deer fly showing patterned wings – the head-orbiting smaller cousin | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Deer mouse – the countryside cousin whose nests host their own parasite economy | β | Public domain |
| Drain fly (moth fly), the fuzzy heart-shaped fly of bathroom drains | Bj.schoenmakers | CC0 |
| Drugstore beetle – the tiny brown pantry invader that eats nearly everything | division | CC BY 3.0 |
| Eastern boxelder bug – the red-piped fall aggregator of sunny south walls | Katja Schulz from Washington | CC BY 2.0 |
| Eastern cicada killer – Ohio’s largest wasp, and one of its least dangerous | Dmitry Brant | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Eastern cicada killer hauling a cicada twice her weight back to the burrow | β | Public domain |
| Eastern mole, the mole species behind most Ohio yard tunnels | Bert Cash from Brunswick | CC BY 2.0 |
| Eastern subterranean termite swarmer – equal wings, straight waist, beaded antennae | PumpkinSky | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Eastern subterranean termite worker, the species responsible for essentially all termite damage in Ohio | USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory | Public domain |
| Eastern subterranean termite workers — pale, soft-bodied, and light-shy: the caste that actually eats your house | uploaded byβEsculapio 20:33 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Eastern yellow jacket worker, the ground-nesting wasp behind most late-summer stings in Ohio | Desislav Iliev | CC BY 4.0 |
| European fire ant – the northern stinger occasionally found in the Great Lakes region | Aiwok | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| European hornet, Ohio’s only true hornet, with captured prey | Richard Bartz | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| Female wolf spider carrying her spiderlings – unique among spiders | Muhammad Mahdi Karim | GFDL 1.2 |
| Firebrat, the silverfish cousin found near furnaces and water heaters | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| First-instar stink bug nymphs clustered at their hatched eggs – the huddle phase before dispersal | Judy Gallagher | CC BY 2.0 |
| Flat enough to hide in a screw slot: why the hotel check works seams, piping, and the headboard’s back | β | Public domain |
| Flea larva – the carpet-dwelling stage most treatments miss | Alan R Walker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Fort Piqua Plaza, the restored 1891 hotel in downtown Piqua, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Foundation ventilation openings in masonry – the old open-vent doctrine in brick | Kolforn (Kolforn) Iβd appreciate if you | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Full wings and a glider’s takeoff — the American roach is the one Ohio species that genuinely flies at you | Eugene Zelenko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Fungus gnat – the houseplant hoverer that cannot bite | James K. Lindsey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| German cockroach on a household surface – the crack world’s commuter, mid-errand | gailhampshire from Cradley | CC BY 2.0 |
| German cockroach with ootheca (egg case), each holding 30-40 eggs | β | Public domain |
| Goldenrod crab spider – the white spider of Ohio flower heads | Luc Viatour | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Grand Army of the Republic memorial in Pleasant Hill, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Great Miami riverfront in Piqua, Ohio | Ohio Redevelopment Projects β ODSA | CC BY 2.0 |
| Great Wolf Lodge in Mason, Ohio | Jonathan Goble (on Commons as jcgoble3) | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Greenhouse camel cricket – the Asian import now dominant in American basements | Judy Gallagher | CC BY 2.0 |
| Greenville Street at Oak in Ludlow Falls, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Historic government building in Covington, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Historic Main Street in Waynesville, Ohio, the antiques capital of the Midwest | Lawrenceoftyrone | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Historic McKinley School building in West Milton, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Historic postcard view of the falls at Ludlow Falls, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Hobart Arena in Troy, Ohio | Wikimedia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Horse fly – the inch of daylight misery with scissor mouthparts | Bruce Marlin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| House centipede – fifteen pairs of legs, zero danger, surprising usefulness | David Levine from Portland | CC BY 2.0 |
| House fly – the two-week lifespan behind the endless summer supply | Alvesgaspar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| House fly pupae β the stage between maggot and adult, finished in days when it’s warm | β | Public domain |
| House mice climb rough vertical surfaces with ease — wall voids, wire chases, and pipe runs are their highway syβ¦ | Ahunt | CC0 |
| House mouse droppings beside coins for scale – rice-grain size, pointed ends | Hansmuller | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| House mouse mid-exploration – the vertical athlete of the twelve doors | Ahunt | CC0 |
| House mouse on the night shift – the forager your kitchen never sees | Daniel Montesinos | CC BY 4.0 |
| House mouse, the species behind most Ohio home infestations | Ahunt | CC0 |
| Houses along Maineville Road in Maineville, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Indian meal moth – the two-toned wings of the pantry’s flying dynasty | Kaldari | CC0 |
| Indian meal moth larva – the webbing-spinner that does all the actual eating | Fvukajlovic | CC BY 4.0 |
| Japanese beetles – the skeletonizers of July | Wikimedia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Japanese beetles doing what they do: skeletonizing a rose β the sight that sells a million traps every July | NY State IPM Program at Cornell Univers | CC BY 2.0 |
| Larder beetle showing the pale banded back – the protein-pantry specialist | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Laura Christian Church in Laura, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Lovebugs β the paired-in-flight march flies of the Gulf states, famous for coating southern windshields | Alexpb | CC BY 2.5 |
| Macro portrait of a house fly, the species behind most sudden indoor fly infestations | Irina Petrova | CC BY 4.0 |
| Main Street east of Walnut in Fletcher, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Main Street in Fletcher, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Male black widow – smaller, browner, patterned, and medically insignificant | Tanthalas39 | CC BY 3.0 |
| Male, female, and young – the family unit that turns two October mice into a February colony | β | Public domain |
| Marbled orb weaver photographed in Ohio – October’s pumpkin-colored showpiece | James St. John | CC BY 2.0 |
| Mason bees – the early-spring cavity nesters that out-pollinate honeybees | AndrΓ© Karwath aka Aka | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| Meadow vole, the vole species that tunnels Ohio lawns | β | Public domain |
| Metallic green sweat bee – Ohio’s jewel among native bees | Ken Gibson | CC BY 2.0 |
| Miami Avenue near Main Street in Bradford, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Millipede – the slow, harmless, round-bodied cousin of damp basements | Patrick Henry from Euclid | CC BY 2.0 |
| Morrow, Ohio village hall seen across the Todd Fork | β | Public domain |
| Moth-eaten wool – the larvae’s signature holes in a cardigan | Lyylihelena | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Newborn mice ("pinkies") β hairless, blind, and proof of an active nest within a few feet | Bahador from Daytona Beach | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| Norway rat droppings – blunt-ended capsules the size of raisins | NY State IPM Program at Cornell Univers | CC BY 2.0 |
| Ohio’s own spider wasp β the tarantula hawk’s smaller local cousin, dragging paralyzed spiders across patios every sumβ¦ | Judy Gallagher | CC BY 2.0 |
| Old Tippecanoe Main Street Historic District in Tipp City, Ohio | Niagara66 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Organ-pipe mud dauber nest – the fluted mud tubes on sheltered walls | Katja Schulz from Washington | CC BY 2.0 |
| Oriental cockroach, the basement roach most people call a waterbug | gailhampshire from Cradley | CC BY 2.0 |
| Pavement ant – the grooved-headed colonist of every sidewalk crack | Setor33 | CC0 |
| Pavement ants in a sidewalk-seam turf war – the spring driveway spectacle that precedes kitchen scouting | Chetvorno | CC0 |
| Phorid fly showing the humpbacked profile that names the family | β | Public domain |
| Pill bugs and woodlice – the backyard’s armored land crustaceans | Alvesgaspar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ in Pleasant Hill, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Popillia japonica β copper wings, metallic green head, and the white side-tufts that confirm the ID | Arthur E. Miller | CC BY 3.0 us |
| Post office in Covington, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Potsdam United Methodist Church in Potsdam, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| Red imported fire ant worker – the southern species Ohio does NOT host | Insects Unlocked | CC0 |
| Red velvet mite – the big harmless red wanderer of spring gardens | Thomas Shahan | CC BY 2.0 |
| Resting crane fly showing the long fragile legs that break away easily | ImagePerson | CC BY 4.0 |
| Roof rat – the slender, big-eared aerialist of the rat family | H. Zell | CC BY 3.0 |
| Scuttle fly – the runner that would rather sprint than fly | Katja Schulz from Washington | CC BY 2.0 |
| Sealing entry points – half of preventive pest control never touches a chemical at all | β | Public domain |
| Silverfish grazing damage on a book — the ragged surface scraping that gives paper a scraped, eaten-away look | Micha L. Rieser | Attribution |
| Silverfish, the teardrop-shaped gray insect of damp Ohio basements | Aiwok | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Snow fleas – springtails peppering a winter thaw, the family’s strangest cameo | Daniel Tompkins | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Soldier and worker termites – the pale, soft-bodied castes people almost never see until wood is opened | β | Public domain |
| Sowbug – the flat-bodied cousin that cannot roll | Grete Pasch | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Still on the roster: the swatter removes weeks of future egg-laying per swing | β | Public domain |
| Stink bug eggs – the barrel cluster of 20-30 on a leaf underside | Selmoval | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Stink bug nymphs emerging from their barrel-shaped egg cluster – the geometric rows every gardener eventually meets | MedievalRich at English Wikipedia | CC BY 2.5 |
| Subterranean termite workers – the foragers a bait station recruits | β | Public domain |
| Sudden persistent scratching – the household’s first flea alarm, weeks before humans see a single flea | Sahilrathod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Termite colony castes – workers, soldiers and nymphs sharing food, the pathway bait travels | Entomology | CC BY 3.0 |
| Termite-damaged wood showing the mud-packed galleries that follow the grain | The original uploader was Rafti Insti | Attribution |
| The adult bed bug – six walking legs, zero wings, zero jumping anatomy: a commuter, never a leaper | β | Public domain |
| The adult house fly: two to four weeks of life, and a month is all it needs to become hundreds | Daniele Brescia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The aftermath — a honey bee’s detached stinger; wasps and hornets keep theirs and sting again | Daniel Abdullah | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The American cockroach – the big mahogany one that rode the sewer line in, not the grocery bag | Insects Unlocked | CC0 |
| The American cockroach — two inches of mahogany with a pale figure-eight behind the head, Ohio’s biggest rβ¦ | Gary Alpert | CC BY 2.5 |
| The American dagger moth caterpillar β the fuzzy yellow "pet me" caterpillar kids should never pet | Will Brown | CC BY 2.0 |
| The American dog tick – Ohio’s most commonly encountered tick, ornate shield and all | Jerry Kirkhart from Los Osos | CC BY 2.0 |
| The American giant millipede on a fingertip – Ohio’s largest, gentlest many-legs | Npatchett | CC0 |
| The Australian giant burrowing cockroach – the heavyweight champion at over an ounce | Wikimedia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The bald-faced hornet – ivory face, black armor, and taxonomically a yellowjacket in a hornet’s reputation | Pavel Suslinnikov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The bald-faced hornet – ivory-and-black, and technically not a hornet at all | Judy Gallagher | CC BY 2.0 |
| The bald-faced hornet — black and ivory, technically a yellowjacket, and builder of the gray football nest | Rhododendrites | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The bed bug: flat, wingless, and a walker — the jump test alone separates it from any flea | β | Public domain |
| The bed bug’s flat body and fabric-walking claws — engineered for mattress seams, helpless in hair | β | Public domain |
| The blacklegged (deer) tick – Ohio’s Lyme disease carrier, now established statewide | β | Public domain |
| The brown marmorated stink bug – the shield-shaped fall houseguest that treats your walls like a hotel | NY State IPM Program at Cornell Univers | CC BY 2.0 |
| The brown marmorated stink bug — its scent glands sit on the underside of the thorax, primed to fire when crusheβ¦ | Kramthenik27 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The camel cricket β Ohio’s actual basement resident, and the answer to most local "Jerusalem cricket" reports | James St. John | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Carolina wolf spider – North America’s largest, and still a bee-sting-grade acquittal case | Cor2ran | CC0 |
| The carpet beetle larva – the bristled “woolly bear” behind most larvae-in-bed discoveries, and the best-cβ¦ | David Short from Windsor | CC BY 2.0 |
| The cat flea – the species behind nearly every Ohio flea problem, on cats, dogs, and ankles alike | Andrei Savitsky | CC BY 4.0 |
| The cat flea — despite the name, the flea on nearly every Ohio dog — built to sprint through fur and drinkβ¦ | Erturac | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The cat flea under the microscope — the species that named itself after its favorite host | Nikolai Bulykin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The cellar spider – the basement ceiling’s shivering, harmless webmaster | Olei | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The cellar spider – the basement corner’s permanent fishing operation, and the most slandered spider in the housβ¦ | David Short from Windsor | CC BY 2.0 |
| The classic gray-brown house mouse — dusty gray above, lighter below, with the nearly bare tail that separates iβ¦ | β | Public domain |
| The classic vinegar trap β legitimate cleanup for fruit flies, and a placebo for house flies | Vis M | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The common clothes moth – small, golden, light-shy, and expensive | David Short from Windsor | CC BY 2.0 |
| The common eastern bumble bee — Ohio’s furriest pollinator, and among its least likely to sting | Rhododendrites | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The cow killer velvet ant – a wingless wasp in warning colors | Andy from β¦in a little town where ever | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| The dark fishing spider β Ohio’s biggest spider, palm-of-your-hand scale, and completely harmless | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The dark-winged fungus gnat – a week of adult life funded by a month in wet soil | Mike Pennington | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| The darkling beetle (adult mealworm) β the slower black beetle whose presence points at stored grain or a forgotten spβ¦ | Didier Descouens | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The differential grasshopper β one of Ohio’s common species, permanently solitary, never a swarm | Eugene Zelenko | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The eastern black carpenter ant – Ohio’s biggest ant, evenly rounded thorax and all | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The eastern Hercules beetle β Ohio’s heaviest insect, up to 2.5 inches of mottled armor with rhino horns | Judy Gallagher | CC BY 2.0 |
| The eastern subterranean termite β Ohio’s only termite, which recycles its droppings into mud tube construction insteaβ¦ | β | Public domain |
| The eastern subterranean termite worker – cream-white, soft, and the caste doing all the eating in every Ohio infestatβ¦ | Judy Gallagher | CC BY 2.0 |
| The eastern yellowjacket — hairless, glossy, and boldly banded: a wasp wearing a bee’s warning colors | Judy Gallagher | CC BY 2.0 |
| The egg case a fogger never touches: 30β40 nymphs sealed away in a crevice, immune to anything airborne | β | Public domain |
| The European earwig, Ohio’s only common earwig — a mulch-dweller with a fearsome look and a harmless bite | Jeangagnon | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The European hornet – Ohio’s only true hornet, an inch-plus of chestnut and gold | β | Public domain |
| The female black widow – one of only two Ohio spiders whose bite belongs in a medical file | Shenrich91 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The female lone star tick – the “tick with the white dot” now spreading into southwest Ohio | Benjamin Smith from United States | CC BY 2.0 |
| The field cricket – the glossy black fall walk-in that chirps from the garage until frost or the vacuum wins | Katya from Moscow | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| The firebrat β the silverfish’s mottled, heat-loving cousin that colonizes furnace rooms and water heater closets | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The firebrat — the silverfish’s heat-loving twin from furnace rooms, equally incapable of biting people | KyleCMSmith | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The first hard frost – the morning Ohio’s mosquito season officially ends, every year without appeal | Ville Tuominen | CC BY 3.0 |
| The flea – laterally flattened, armored, and built to sprint through fur; ankles are its fallback, not its home | Fedaro | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The flea larva – the bristled, blind carpet-dweller that makes up the hidden majority of an infestation | Alan R Walker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The flesh fly β gray racing stripes, checkerboard abdomen, red eyes: the blow fly’s drabber partner in the same story | Muhammad Mahdi Karim | GFDL |
| The fruit fly – red-eyed, tan, and the ferment-following half of most tiny-flier mysteries | AndrΓ© Karwath aka Aka | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| The full flea life cycle β adult, pupa, larva, and the egg where 50% of the infestation lives | Wikimedia | CC BY 4.0 |
| The fungus gnat – dark, delicate, mosquito-built in miniature, and married to wet potting soil | Katja Schulz from Washington | CC BY 2.0 |
| The funnel web at its mouth – a flat silk sheet narrowing to the retreat where the sprinter waits | β | Public domain |
| The German cockroach – hard-wired to the night shift by a circadian clock older than the dinosaurs | Saphan | FAL |
| The German cockroach β the species roach bombs are bought for, and the one they help least | Saphan | FAL |
| The German cockroach — half an inch of tan with two dark racing stripes behind the head, the ID that settles eveβ¦ | Clemson University β USDA Cooperative Ex | CC BY 3.0 us |
| The giant house spider – a year-round indoor resident whose winter address never changes | gailhampshire from Cradley | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Golden Lamb in Lebanon, Ohio β the state's oldest inn | Ohio Redevelopment Projects β ODSA | CC BY 2.0 |
| The granary weevil – the snout that develops inside the kernel | division | CC BY 3.0 |
| The grass spider – racing stripes, banded legs, and the September lawn’s most prolific architect | Rylee Isitt | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| The gray paper globe – swirled work-log bands, bottom entrance, and up to 700 defenders by September | Makuabob | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The great black wasp β jet black with smoky blue-iridescent wings, up to an inch and a half long | Greg Schechter from San Francisco | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Great Miami River Recreational Trail at Franklin, Ohio | John Beagle | CC BY 2.0 |
| The green bottle fly β metallic armor, sudden indoor appearances, and a message worth decoding | Baitpoint | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Greene County Courthouse in Xenia, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| The Greene Town Center in Beavercreek, Ohio | Eric Fredericks | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| The ground beetle β the fast glossy black beetle behind most "black beetle in my house" reports, and a predator on youβ¦ | David Short from Windsor | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Harveysburg, Ohio water tower | β | Public domain |
| The hellgrammite β the dobsonfly’s aquatic larva, prized bass bait and certified clean-water indicator | Walther Ishikawa | CC BY 2.5 |
| The historic Council House and Jail in Corwin, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| The historic Harveysburg school building, home of Ohio's first free school for Black children, founded 1831 | Miami U. Libraries β Digital Collections | No restrictions |
| The hobo spider – a Pacific Northwest funnel weaver that does NOT live in Ohio; your look-alike is the giant house spiβ¦ | Julien Lino-Wiseman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The house cricket – tan, long-winged, and the author of the 2 a.m. chirp behind the water heater | G.-U. Tolkiehn | CC BY 2.5 |
| The house fly pipeline: eggs, larvae, pupa, adult β the 24-hour hatch clock starts at laying | Clemson University β USDA Cooperative Ex | CC BY 3.0 |
| The house mouse – a quarter-sized doorway, a teaspoon of food a day, and a 21-day breeding clock | Ahunt | CC0 |
| The house mouse — a wall-void commuter that needs only a dime-sized gap and a stud bay to own your walls | Ahunt | CC0 |
| The house mouse free-climbs brick, siding corners, and cable lines — the roofline is a commute, not a barrier | Ahunt | CC0 |
| The house mouse needs one dime-width gap — and a car’s vents, cable ports, and wheel wells offer dozens | Ahunt | CC0 |
| The house mouse: give it a gap the width of a dime and the steel wool conversation begins | Ahunt | CC0 |
| The house pseudoscorpion – Ohio’s closest thing to a scorpion, at book-lice scale | Christian Fischer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The Indianmeal moth — two-toned wings, and the number-one pantry pest in American kitchens | β | Public domain |
| The Jerusalem cricket β the amber-headed "child of the earth" that unsettles the entire American West | Matthias Blume | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Kings Island tower at night in Mason, Ohio | Eli Duke from Portland | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| The large milkweed bug – bold orange-and-black, monarch-adjacent, and completely harmless | Photo (c)2008 Derek Ramsey (Ram-Man) | GFDL 1.2 |
| The leaf-footed bug β the squash bug’s bigger cousin with the flared "leaf" hind legs, and a fall houseguest habit | Judy Gallagher | CC BY 2.0 |
| The little black ant under specimen magnification – jet-glossy, two-noded, and half the size of its kitchen rivals | April Nobile | CC BY 4.0 |
| The Little Miami Scenic Trail at the historic Peters Cartridge Factory near Kings Mills | R.P. Piper | CC BY 2.0 |
| The long-winged adult – the glide-capable stage behind every “it flew at me” palmetto story | Photo by David J. Stang | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Lutheran stone church in Casstown, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| The Mackinaw Historic District in Franklin, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| The Miami County Courthouse in Troy, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| The municipal building in South Lebanon, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| The nibble pattern: many small meals at many sites every night, which is exactly what trapping exploits | No machine-readable author provided. Jen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The northern giant hornet — two inches of orange-headed predator, photographed on the continent where it actuallβ¦ | KENPEI | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The northern house mosquito – the one Ohio species whose mated females overwinter as adults, garages and crawlspaces pβ¦ | Andy Murray | CC BY-SA 2.0 |
| The odorous house ant – the Miami Valley’s number-one kitchen invader | Theo Summer | CC BY 4.0 |
| The odorous house ant β Ohio’s #1 kitchen ant and the species most ant traps are bought to fight | NY State IPM Program at Cornell Univers | CC BY 2.0 |
| The Oriental cockroach — glossy black-brown, an inch long, and the coldest-hardy roach in any Ohio basement | Syrio | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The palmetto bug, unmasked – it’s an American cockroach, whatever Florida called it | Photo by David J. Stang | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The perimeter barrier – the scheduled exterior treatment that intercepts pests before the threshold | Nesnad | CC BY 4.0 |
| The profile view that identifies – one smooth, evenly-arched thorax line, the carpenter signature | Judy Gallagher | CC BY 2.0 |
| The public square traffic circle in downtown Troy, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| The red wasp nest: a single open comb of exposed hexagonal cells on a stalk, no papery cover | Hornetboy1970 at en.wikipedia | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The saddleback caterpillar β Ohio’s most painful sting on legs, wearing the green saddle that names it | Gerald J. Lenhard | CC BY 3.0 us |
| The silverfish β uniform gunmetal gray, cool-and-damp preferences: the firebrat’s opposite in every habitat question | Taken by Soebe in nothern Germany | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The snap trap – still the fastest, most humane workhorse in the mouse playbook when placed right | J. M. Pearson | CC0 |
| The Springboro Historic District in Springboro, Ohio | Ed!(talk)(Hall of Fame) | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| The squash bug β the gray-brown vine assassin of every Ohio pumpkin patch and zucchini bed | Ilona Loser | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The Stillwater River near West Milton, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| The tailless whip scorpion – the search bar’s tropical celebrity, not an Ohio resident | caspar s | CC BY 2.0 |
| The technology that actually removes mice β unchanged for a century because it works | David King from Haifa | CC BY 2.0 |
| The tell-tale scratch — sudden biting at the tail base and inner thighs is a dog’s first flea report | Sahilrathod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| The traveler prevention exists to stop – a bed bug in search of a ride | β | Public domain |
| The village park in Potsdam, Ohio | user:AngMoKio | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
| The water tower in Laura, Ohio | Brian Stansberry | CC BY 4.0 |
| The Welcome to Huber Heights, Ohio sign | β | Public domain |
| The wing of an American cockroach – built for gliding, not pursuit | Alyssa LaGrange | CC BY 4.0 |
| The yellowjacket – the picnic economy’s regulator and the removal file’s main event | JL Boyer | CC BY 4.0 |
| Thief ants swarming a protein find — grease and meat, not sugar, is what recruits this species | Ryan Hodnett | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Tomato hornworm at work – the defoliation specialist the flashlight finds | Ljessee123 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Troy-Hayner Cultural Center, a historic mansion in Troy, Ohio | β | Public domain |
| True termite frass: six-sided pellets like coarse coffee grounds β produced by wood-nesting termites, not Ohio’s subteβ¦ | JJ Greive of Home Inspections Of Puget S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Velvet ant showing the dense scarlet pile that names the family | Travisleeandrews | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
| Village streetscape in Casstown, Ohio | Logan Rickert | CC BY 2.0 |
| Weevils in stored grain – the discovery the scoop makes | Begonia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| What the tubes feed: termite galleries running with the grain, packed with the mud workers travel behind | Umar2z | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Winged termites and shed wings collected after a swarm | Oliversamson1 | CC0 |
| Wolf spider – Ohio’s big, fast ground hunter | fir0002 flagstaffotos [at] gmail.com | GFDL 1.2 |
| Woodrow Wilson campaigning by train in railroad-town Bradford, Ohio, 1912 | β | Public domain |
| Yellow garden spider (Argiope) on its zigzag-signed web | The Cosmonaut | CC BY-SA 2.5 ca |
| Yellow sticky trap – the census tool for any gnat problem | Shakiralzaidi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |