Insect Journal

Be on the watch for these insects in September:

• Insects in and around homes

  • Ants
  • carpenter
  • acrobat, cornfield, false honey, field, odorous house, pavement, pharoah, thief, yellow
  • ant swarmers: acrobat, cornfield, field, thief, yellow
  • wasps
    • social
    • solitary
  • multicolored Asian lady beetles
  • box elder bugs
  • millipedes
  • sowbugs
  • western conifer seed bugs
  • cluster flies
  • foreign grain beetles (very common in newly constructed homes)
  • spiders
  • stored product insects
    • Indianmeal moths
    • beetles: flour, sawtoothed, grain, cigarette, drugstore and others
  • springtails
  • hackberry psyllids
  • birch catkin feeders
  • centipedes
  • ground beetles
  • pseudoscorpions
  • masked hunters
  • larder beetles
  • cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental
  • carpet beetles
  • northern fowl mites (associated with birds' nests)
  • blow flies
  • Pennsylvania wood cockroaches (found indoors or outside in wooded areas)
  • houseplant insects

  Insects in Yards or Gardens

• Gardens:
  • apple maggots
  • black and yellow argiope spider
  • black swallowtail caterpillar
  • common asparagus beetles
  • cabbageworms
  • Colorado potato beetles
  • earwigs
  • iris borers
  • multicolored Asian lady beetles
  • Japanese beetles
  • picnic beetles
  • slugs
  • stalk borers
  • soldier beetles
  • sphinx caterpillars (hornworms)
  • squash bugs
  • tobacco budworm

   

• Yards:

• ants in turf
• aphids
• birch catkin feeders
• black willow aphids
• cecropia caterpillar
• cicada
• fall webworm
• galls, insect and mite (includes galls on oak, Cooley spruce gall, and eastern spruce gall)
• introduced pine sawflies
• katydid
• lace bugs
• larch sawflies
• mountain ash sawflies
• polyphemus caterpillars
• red headed pine sawfly
• redhumped caterpillars
• whitemarked tussock moths
• yellownecked caterpillars

• Insects that bite or sting

  • blacklegged ticks (formerly known as deer ticks)
  • American dog ticks (also known as wood ticks)
  • bed bugs
  • head lice
  • fleas
  • mosquitoes
  • black flies
  • deer flies and horse flies
  • stable flies

Posted by Amy Baker at 4:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)