Current Insects: September
Be on the watch for these insects in September
Insects in and around homes
• Ants
° cornfield, pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, field, acrobat
° swarmers: cornfield, field, yellow, thief, acrobat
• Social wasps (i.e. yellowjackets, paper wasps)
• Multicolored Asian lady beetles
• Spiders• Stored product insects
° 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)
• Sowbugs
• Larder beetles
Insects in gardens and yards
Gardens
• Aphids
• Black and yellow argiope spider
• Black swallowtail caterpillar
• Cutworms
• Earwigs
• Slugs
• Solitary wasps (including cicada killers)
• Sphinx caterpillars (hornworms)
• Tobacco budworm (also known as geranium budworm)
Yards
• Cicadas
• Imported willow leaf beetles
• Introduced pine sawflies• Pearslug
• Solitary wasps (including cicada killers)
Insects that bite or sting
• Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)
• American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)
• Bed bugs
• Fleas