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September 1, 2009

Current Insects: September

Be on the watch for these insects in September

Insects in and around homes

• Ants

    °  carpenter

    °  cornfield, pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, field, acrobat

    °  swarmers: cornfield, field, yellow, thief, acrobat

•  Social wasps (i.e. yellowjackets, paper wasps)

•  Boxelder bugs

•  Multicolored Asian lady beetles

•  Fruit flies

•  Cluster flies

•  Spiders

•  Strawberry root weevils

•  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)

•  Foreign grain beetles (very common in newly constructed homes)

•  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

•  Solitary wasps (including cicada killers)

•  Sphinx caterpillars (hornworms)

•  Squash bugs

•  Tobacco budworm (also known as geranium budworm)

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

•  Solitary wasps (including cicada killers)

•  Twolined chestnut borers

•  Viburnum borers

•  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