Categories
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INDOORS
These include insects and spiders that are sometimes found inside our homes and businesses.
Biting Pests
Incidental Invaders
Pantry and Fabric Pests
- Carpet Beetle
- Clothes Moth
- Flour Beetles
- Pantry Moths
Small Flies
- Drain Flies
- Fruit Flies
- Fungus Gnats
- Quick ID Guide to Small Flies
Spiders
Wood-Destroying Organisms (WDO)
OUTDOORS
These include insects, spiders, millipedes and other organisms that are commonly found outdoors and may or may not be considered pests.
Biting & Stinging Insects
Biting
Stinging
*non-aggressive, solitary insects, unlikely to sting
- Bubble Bee
- Carpenter Bee*
- Cicada Killer Wasp*
- Cowkiller Ant*
- Honey Bee
- Mud Daubers*
- Paper Wasps
- Potter/Mason Wasps*
- Steel Blue Cricket Hunter*
- Yellowjackets
Flower Garden
- Aphids
- Blister Beetles
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Cabbageworm
- Carpenter Bee
- Carpet Beetle
- Checkerspot Butterfly
- Cucumber Beetles
- Cutworm Moths
- European Earwig
- Flea Beetles
- Fungus Gnats
- Geranium/Tobacco Budworm
- Grasshopper
- Garden Spider
- Green June Beetle
- Hoverflies
- Japanese Beetle
- Lace Bugs
- Milkweed Bugs
- Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
- Painted Lady Butterfly
- Squash Vine Borer
- Sun Flower Moth
- Two-Spotted Spider Mite
- Woolly Aphids
Spiders
Tree Pests
Vegetable Garden
- Aphids
- Asparagus Beetle
- Bean Leaf Beetle
- Blister Beetles
- Cabbage Looper
- Cabbageworm
- Cucumber Beetles
- Cutworm Moths
- Diamondback Moth
- European Earwig
- Flea Beetles
- Grasshopper
- Green June Beetle
- Japanese Beetle
- Purple Carrot-Seed Moth
- Squash Bug
- Squash Vine Borer
- Three-Lined Potato Beetle
- Tomato Fruitworm
- Tomato/Tobacco Hornworms
- Two-Spotted Spider Mite
- Annual Cicada
- Boxelder Bug
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- Carpenter Ant
- Carpenter Bee
- Centipedes
- Cowkiller Ant
- European Earwig
- Giant Water Bug
- Green June Beetle
- Japanese Beetle
- Lace Bugs
- Milkweed Bugs
- Millipedes
- Minute Pirate Bug
- Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
- Pillbug/Sowbug
- Robber Flies
- Subterranean Termites
- Western Conifer Seed Bug
- Wheel Bug
- Woolly Aphids
BITING & STINGING INSECTS
These include mosquitoes, ticks, bed bugs, chiggers, head lice and wasps. Some of them are considered health-related pests.
Biting
- Bat Bug
- Bed Bugs
- Cat Flea
- Chiggers
- Head Lice
- Minute Pirate Bugs
- Mosquitoes
- Multicolored Asian Lady Beetle
- Ticks
Stinging
*non-aggressive, solitary insects, unlikely to sting
- Bubble Bee
- Carpenter Bee*
- Cicada Killer Wasp*
- Cowkiller Ant*
- Honey Bee
- Mud Daubers*
- Paper Wasps
- Potter/Mason Wasps*
- Steel Blue Cricket Hunter*
- Yellowjackets
FLOWER GARDEN
These include various caterpillars, bugs, beetles, butterflies and moths that feed on flowering plants.
VEGETABLE GARDEN
These include various caterpillars, bugs, mites and beetles that feed on our produce as it grows in our gardens.
- Aphids
- Asparagus Beetle
- Bean Leaf Beetle
- Blister Beetles
- Cabbage Looper
- Cabbageworm
- Cucumber Beetles
- Cutworm Moths
- Diamondback Moth
- European Earwig
- Flea Beetles
- Grasshopper
- Green June Beetle
- Japanese Beetle
- Purple Carrot-Seed Moth
- Squash Bug
- Squash Vine Borer
- Three-Lined Potato Beetle
- Tomato Fruitworm
- Tomato/Tobacco Hornworms
- Two-Spotted Spider Mite