Insect Journal

Be on the watch for these insects in July

Insects in and around homes

• Ants

    °  carpenter

    °  cornfield, pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, false honey, field, acrobat

    °  swarmers: pavement, yellow, cornfield, field, thief, odorous house, acrobat

•  Stored product insects

    °  Indianmeal moths

    °  flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

•  Spiders

•  Strawberry root weevils

•  Wasps

•  Cockroaches

    °  German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

    °  woods (may be found indoors or outside in wooded areas)

•  House flies

•  Blow flies

•  Springtails

•  Masked hunters

•  House centipedes

•  Pseudoscorpions

•  Northern fowl mites

•  Carpet beetles

•  Houseplant insects

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

•  Apple maggots

•  Asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)

•  Bean leaf beetles

•  Cabbageworms

•  Cutworms

•  Earwigs

•  False Japanese beetles

•  Flea beetles

•  Fourlined plant bugs

•  Iris borers

•  Polydrusus weevils

•  Red turnip beetle larvae

•  Root maggots (onion and cabbage)

•  Slugs

•  Striped cucumber beetles

•  Sphinx caterpillars (hornworms)

•  Squash bugs

Yards

•  Ants in lawns

•  Ash leafcurl aphids

•  Ash plant bugs

•  Dogwood sawflies

•  Elm leaf beetles

•  Galls, insects and mites

•  Honeylocust plant bugs

•  Ichneumonid wasps

•  Imported willow leaf beetles

•  Lace bugs

•  Lecanium scale (crawlers hatch June, July)

•  Introduced pine sawflies

•  Mountain ash sawflies

•  Pearslug

•  Pine bark adelgid

•  Pine tortoise scale

•  Viburnum borer (late June, July)

Insects that bite or sting

•  Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)

•  American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)

•  Bed bugs

•  Black flies

•  Head lice

•  Fleas