Insect Journal

Be on the watch for these insect pests in April:

Insects in and around homes

• multicolored Asian lady beetles
• boxelder bugs
• ants
• carpenter
• acrobat, cornfield, field, odorous house, pavement, pharaoh, thief, yellow
• ant swarmers: carpenter, yellow, false honey, pavement
• wasps
• stored product insects
• Indianmeal moths
• beetles: flour, sawtoothed, grain, cigarette, drugstore and others
• spiders
• centipedes
• millipedes
• sowbugs
• cluster flies
• western conifer seed bugs
• clover mites
• hackberry psyllids
• cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental
• Pennsylvania wood cockroaches (found indoors or outside in wooded areas)
• fruit flies
• phorid flies
• fungus gnats
• pseudoscorpions
• larderbeetle
• springtails
• carpet beetles
• houseplant insects

Insects in Yards or Gardens

Gardens:

• andrenid bees
• common asparagus beetles
• iris borers (eggs can hatch late April - early May)
• root maggots (adults are active late April or early May)

Yards:

• clover mites
• eastern tent caterpillars (eggs hatch late April - early May)
• nightcrawlers

Insects that bite or sting

• blacklegged ticks (formerly known as deer ticks)
• American dog ticks (also commonly known as dog ticks)
• bed bugs
• fleas
• head lice

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