Insect Journal

• Multicolored Asian lady beetles

• Cluster fly

• Sowbugs

• Hackberry psyllids

• Western conifer seed bugs

• Ants

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

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

• Fruit flies

• 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

• Birch catkin feeders

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

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:35:15 -0600

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

• Fruit flies

• Cluster flies

• Spiders

• Strawberry root weevils

• 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

• Hackberry psyllids

• Western conifer seed bugs

• Larder beetles

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Aphids

• Common asparagus beetles

• Black and yellow argiope spider

• Black swallowtail caterpillar

• Colorado potato beetles

• Cutworms

• Earwigs

• Japanese beetles

• Northern corn rootworms

• Polydrusus weevils

• Slugs

• Soldier beetles

• Solitary wasps (including cicada killers)

• Sphinx caterpillars (hornworms)

• Tobacco budworm (also known as geranium budworm)

Yards

• Birch catkin feeders

• 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

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:01:00 -0600

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

• Strawberry root weevils

• Fruit flies

• 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

• Hackberry psyllids

• Western conifer seed bugs

• Larder beetles

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Aphids

• Common asparagus beetles

• Black and yellow argiope spider

• Black swallowtail caterpillar

• Colorado potato beetles

• Cutworms

• Earwigs

• Japanese beetles

• Northern corn rootworms

• Polydrusus weevils

• Slugs

• Soldier beetles

• Sphinx caterpillars (hornworms)

Yards

• Birch catkin feeders

• Cecropia caterpillars

• Cicadas

• 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

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:01 -0600

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

• Strawberry root weevils

• Wasps

• Cockroaches

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

• Larder beetles

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)

• Cutworms

• Earwigs

• False Japanese beetles

• Fourlined plant bugs

• Polydrusus weevils

• Red turnip beetle larvae

• Root maggots (onion and cabbage)

• Slugs

• Sphinx caterpillars (hornworms)

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

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:27:57 -0600

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)

• Springtails

• Spiders

• Click beetles

• Larder beetles

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)

• Codling moths

• Cutworms

• Fourlined plant bugs

• Red turnip beetle larvae

• Root maggots (onion and cabbage)

• Rose chafers

• Slugs

• Spittlebugs

Yards

• Ash leafcurl aphids

• Ash plant bugs

• Ash sawfly

• Birch leafminers

• Cankerworms

• Eastern tent caterpillars

• European pine sawflies

• Forest tent caterpillars

• June beetles

• Lace bugs

• Lecanium scale (crawlers hatch June, July)

• Maple petiole borers

• 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

• Head lice

• Fleas

Current Insects: May

Thu, 01 May 2008 12:01:01 -0600

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

• Multicolored Asian lady beetles

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

• European pine sawflies

• Lace bugs