Insect Journal

• Sowbugs

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

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

• Flour beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles etc.

• Spiders

Stored product insects

• Indianmeal moths

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks - formerly called deer ticks (can be active in temperatures as low as the low to mid 30's F)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: October

2009-10-12T16:47:40Z

Be on the watch for these insects in October

Insects in and around homes

• Cluster flies

• Sowbugs

• Ants

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

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

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Aphids

• Apple maggot damage

• Earwigs

• Slugs

Yards

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks - formerly called deer ticks (can be active in temperatures as low as the low to mid 30's F)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: September

2009-09-01T05:00:01Z

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)

• Cluster flies

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches

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

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

• Ground beetles

• Sowbugs

• Larder beetles

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Aphids

• Common asparagus beetles

• Black and yellow argiope spider

• Black swallowtail caterpillar

• Cutworms

• Earwigs

• Northern corn rootworms

• Slugs

• Soldier beetles

• Solitary wasps (including cicada killers)

• Tobacco budworm (also known as geranium budworm)

Yards

• Cecropia caterpillars

• Cicadas

• Fall webworms

• Lace bugs

• Larch 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

• Deer flies and Horse flies

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: August

2009-08-01T05:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in August

Insects in and around homes

• Ants

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

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

• Wasps

° Social

° Solitary

• Spiders

• Foreign grain beetles

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches

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

• Ground beetles

• Sowbugs

• Larder beetles

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Aphids

• Common asparagus beetles

• Black and yellow argiope spider

• Black swallowtail caterpillar

• Cutworms

• Earwigs

• Grape pelidnota

• Northern corn rootworms

• Slugs

• Soldier beetles

• Stalk borers

Yards

• Cecropia caterpillars

• Cicadas

• Dobsonflies

• Fall webworms

• Lace bugs

• Larch 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

• Deer flies and Horse flies

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: July

2009-07-01T05:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in July

Insects in and around homes

• Ants

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

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

• Stored product insects

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

• Spiders

• Wasps

• Cockroaches

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

• Foreign grain beetles

• Larder beetles

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)

• Cutworms

• Dobsonflies

• Earwigs

• False Japanese beetles

• Fourlined plant bugs

• Grape pelidnota

• Red turnip beetle larvae

• Root maggots (onion and cabbage)

• Slugs

• Stalk borers

Yards

• Ash leafcurl aphids

• Ash plant bugs

• Lace bugs

• Lecanium scale (crawlers hatch June, July)

• 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

• Mosquitoes

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: June

2009-06-02T17:44:03Z

Be on the watch for these insects in June

Insects in and around homes

• Ants

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

° swarmers: carpenter, pavement, yellow, false honey ant

• Stored product insects

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

• Wasps

• Cockroaches

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

• house flies

• blow flies

• springtails

• house centipedes

• spiders

• pseudoscorpions

• northern fowl mites

• click beetles

• larder beetles

• carpet beetles

• houseplant insects

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• apple maggots

• asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)

• bean leaf beetles

• cabbageworms

• codling moths

• cutworms

• flea beetles

• fourlined plant bugs

• iris borers

• red turnip beetle larvae

• root maggots (onion and cabbage)

• rose chafers

• slugs

• spittlebugs

• striped cucumber beetles

• squash bugs

Yards

• ants in lawns

• ash leafcurl aphids

• ash plant bugs

• ash sawfly

• birch leafminers

• cankerworms

• dogwood sawflies

• eastern tent caterpillars

• elm leaf beetles

• European pine sawflies

• forest tent caterpillars

• galls, insects and mites

• honeylocust plant bugs

• ichneumonid wasps

• imported willow leaf beetles

• June beetles

• lace bugs

• lecanium scale (crawlers hatch June, July)

• introduced pine sawflies

• maple petiole borers

• mountain ash sawflies

• oystershell scales

• pearslug

• pine needle scales

• pine bark adelgid

• pine tortoise scale

• roseslugs

• spiny elm caterpillar

• viburnum borer (late June)

• yellowheaded spruce sawflies

• whitemarked tussock moth

Insects that bite or sting

• blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)

• American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)

• bed bugs

• mosquitoes

• black flies

• head lice

• fleas

Current Insects: May

2009-05-01T05:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in May

Insects in and around homes

• Ants

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

° swarmers: carpenter, pavement, yellow, false honey ant

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches

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

• Wasps

• Spiders

• Larder beetles

• Sowbugs

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Andrenid bees

• Asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)

• Codling moths

• Cutworms

• Fourlined plant bugs

• Plum cuculios

• Red turnip beetle larvae

• Root maggots (onion and cabbage)

• Slugs

• Spittlebugs

Yards

• Ash leafcurl aphids

• Ash plant bugs

• Ash sawfly

• Birch leafminers

• Cankerworms

• Eastern tent caterpillars

• Emerald ash borers (They are currently not found in Minnesota)

• European pine sawflies

• Forest tent caterpillars

• Lace bugs

• Maple petiole borers

• Oystershell scales

• Pine needle scales

• Roseslugs

• Spiny elm caterpillars

• Yellowheaded spruce sawflies (late May or early June)

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)

• American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

• Mosquitoes (starting late May or early June)

Current Insects: April

2009-04-01T05:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insect pests in April:

Insects in and around homes

wasps
stored product insects

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

Current Insects: March

2009-03-01T06:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in March

Insects in and around homes

• Sowbugs

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

Insects in the Landscape

• Snow fleas

Insects that bite or sting

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

• Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks), they can be active when temps are in the 30o's F

Current Insects: February

2009-02-05T21:54:31Z

Be on the watch for these insects in February

Insects in and around homes

• Sowbugs

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

Insects that bite or sting

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: January

2009-01-01T06:00:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in January

Insects in and around homes

• Sowbugs

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

Insects that bite or sting

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: December

2008-12-01T06:01:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in December

Insects in and around homes

• Sowbugs

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

Insects that bite or sting

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: November

2008-11-01T05:01:01Z

Be on the watch for these insects in November

Insects in and around homes

• Sowbugs

• Ants

° pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, acrobat

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

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks - formerly called deer ticks (can be active in temperatures as low as the low to mid 30's F)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: October

2008-10-02T13:10:58Z

Be on the watch for these insects in October

Insects in and around homes

• Sowbugs

• Ants

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

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

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Aphids

• Apple maggot damage

• Earwigs

• Slugs

Yards

Insects that bite or sting

• Blacklegged ticks - formerly called deer ticks (can be active in temperatures as low as the low to mid 30's F)

• Bed bugs

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: September

2008-09-09T19:35:15Z

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)

• Cluster flies

• Spiders

• Stored product insects

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

• Cockroaches

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

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

• Ground beetles

• Sowbugs

• Larder beetles

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Aphids

• Common asparagus beetles

• Black and yellow argiope spider

• Black swallowtail caterpillar

• Cutworms

• Earwigs

• Northern corn rootworms

• Slugs

• Soldier beetles

• Solitary wasps (including cicada killers)

• Tobacco budworm (also known as geranium budworm)

Yards

• Cecropia caterpillars

• Cicadas

• Fall webworms

• Lace bugs

• Larch 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