Be on the watch for these insects in August
Insects in and around homes
• Ants
° carpenter
° cornfield, pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, field, acrobat
° swarmers: cornfield, field, yellow, thief, acrobat
• Wasps
° Social
° Solitary
• Boxelder bugs
• Spiders
• Strawberry root weevils
• Fruit flies
• Stored product insects
° Indianmeal moths
° flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.
• Cockroaches
° German, brownbanded, American, Oriental
° woods (may be found indoors or outside in wooded areas)
• House flies
• Blow flies
• Ground beetles
• Millipedes
• Sowbugs
• Springtails
• Hackberry psyllids
• Western conifer seed bugs
• Masked hunters
• House centipedes
• Pseudoscorpions
• Northern fowl mites
• Larder beetles
• Carpet beetles
• Houseplant insects
Insects in gardens and yards
Gardens
• Aphids
• Apple maggots
• Common asparagus beetles
• Bean leaf beetles
• Black and yellow argiope spider
• Black swallowtail caterpillar
• Cabbageworms
• Colorado potato beetles
• Cutworms
• Earwigs
• Japanese beetles
• Flea beetles
• Iris borers
• Northern corn rootworms
• Polydrusus weevils
• Slugs
• Soldier beetles
• Striped cucumber beetles
• Sphinx caterpillars (hornworms)
• Squash bugs
Yards
• Ants in lawns
• Birch catkin feeders
• Cecropia caterpillars
• Cicadas
• Dogwood sawflies
• Elm leaf beetles
• Fall webworms
• Galls, insects and mites
• Honeylocust plant bugs
• Ichneumonid wasps
• Imported willow leaf beetles
• Introduced pine sawflies
• Lace bugs
• Larch sawflies
• Mountain ash sawflies
• Pearslug
• Polyphemus caterpillars
• Redheaded pine sawflies
• Redhumped caterpillars
• Twolined chestnut borers
• Viburnum borers
• White pine sawflies
• Whitemarked tussock moths
• Yellownecked caterpillar
Insects that bite or sting
• Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)
• American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)
• Bed bugs
• Mosquitoes
• Stable flies
• Black flies
• Deer flies and Horse flies
• Head lice
• Fleas