Be on the watch for these insects in May

Insects in and around homes

• Ants

    °  carpenter

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

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

•  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)

•  Wasps

•  House centipedes

•  Spiders

•  Larder beetles

•  Springtails

•  Psocids

•  Clover mites

•  Millipedes

•  Sowbugs

•  Pseudoscorpions

•  Carpet beetles

•  Multicolored Asian lady beetles

•  Boxelder bugs

•  Houseplant insects

Insects in gardens and yards

(Note: Because of the late spring, expect insect pests 2 - 4 weeks later than normal.  E.g. forest tent caterpillars normally hatch from early to mid May.  Expect them mid to late May.

Gardens

•  Andrenid bees

•  Asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)

•  Cabbageworms

•  Codling moths 

•  Columbine sawflies

•  Cutworms

•  Flea beetles

•  Fourlined plant bugs

•  Iris borers

•  Plum cuculios

•  Root maggots (onion and cabbage)

•  Slugs

•  Spinach leafminers

•  Spittlebugs

•  Squash bugs

Yards

•  Ants in lawns

•  Aphids 

•  Ash leafcurl aphids

•  Ash plant bugs

•  Ash sawflies

•  Birch leafminers

•  Cankerworms

•  Dogwood sawflies

•  Eastern tent caterpillars

•  Elm leaf beetles

•  Emerald ash borers (currently only confirmed in Hennepin, Ramsey, Houston and Winona counties)

•  European elm flea weevil

•  European pine sawflies

•  Forest tent caterpillars

•  Galls, insects and mites

•  Honeylocust plant bugs

•  Imported willow leaf beetles

•  Lace bugs

•  Introduced pine sawflies

•  Maple petiole borers

•  Oystershell scales

•  Pine needle scales

•  Roseslugs

•  Spiny elm caterpillars

Insects that bite or sting

•  Blacklegged ticks (formerly called deer ticks)

•  American dog ticks (also called wood ticks)

•  Bed bugs

•  Head lice

•  Fleas

Be on the watch for these insect pests in April:

Insects in and around homes

• boxelder bugs
• multicolored Asian lady beetles 
• 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
• moth flies
  
• phorid flies
• fungus gnats
• pseudoscorpions
• larder beetles
• 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

Be on the watch for these insects in March

Insects in and around homes

•  Boxelder bugs

•  Multicolored Asian lady beetles

•  Cluster fly

•  Hackberry psyllids

    °  carpenter

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

•  Fruit flies

•  Moth flies

•  Phorid flies

•  Fungus gnats

•  Stored product insects

    °  Indianmeal moths

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

•  Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

•  Springtails

•  House centipedes

•  Pseudoscorpions

•  Carpet beetles

•  Houseplant insects

•  Longhorned beetles

•  Metallic wood boring beetles

Insects in the Landscape

• Snow fleas

• Winter cutworms

Insects that bite or sting

•  Bed bugs

•  Head lice

•  Fleas

Be on the watch for these insects in February

Insects in and around homes

•  Bed bugs

• Ants

    °  carpenter

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

•  Stored product insects

    °  Indianmeal moths

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

•  Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

•  Fruit flies

•  Moth flies

•  Phorid flies

•  Fungus gnats

•  Boxelder bugs

•  Multicolored Asian lady beetles

•  Cluster flies

•  Spiders

•  Springtails

•  House centipedes

•  Pseudoscorpions

•  Carpet beetles

•  Houseplant insects

•  Longhorned beetles

•  Metallic wood boring beetles

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

Be on the watch for these insects in January

Insects in and around homes

•  Bed bugs

• Ants

    °  carpenter

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

•  Stored product insects

    °  Indianmeal moths

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

•  Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

•  Fruit flies

•  Moth flies

•  Phorid flies

•  Fungus gnats

•  Boxelder bugs

•  Multicolored Asian lady beetles

•  Cluster flies

•  Spiders

•  Springtails

•  House centipedes

•  Pseudoscorpions

•  Carpet beetles

•  Houseplant insects

•  Longhorned beetles

•  Metallic wood boring beetles

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

Be on the watch for these insects in December

Insects in and around homes

•  Bed bugs

• Ants

    °  carpenter

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

•  Stored product insects

    °  Indianmeal moths

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

•  Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

•  Fruit flies

•  Moth flies

•  Phorid flies

•  Fungus gnats

•  Boxelder bugs

•  Multicolored Asian lady beetles

•  Cluster flies

•  Spiders

•  Springtails

•  House centipedes

•  Pseudoscorpions

•  Carpet beetles

•  Houseplant insects

•  Longhorned beetles

•  Metallic wood boring beetles

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

Be on the watch for these insects in November

Insects in and around homes

•  Boxelder bugs

•  Multicolored Asian lady beetles

•  Cluster flies

    °  carpenter

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

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

•  Fruit flies

•  Moth flies

•  Phorid flies

•  Fungus gnats

• Spiders

•  Stored product insects

    °  Indianmeal moths

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

•  Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

•  Springtails

•  House centipedes

•  Pseudoscorpions

•  Carpet beetles

•  Houseplant insects

•  Longhorned beetles

•  Metallic wood boring beetles

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

Be on the watch for these insects in October

Insects in and around homes

•  Boxelder bugs

•  Multicolored Asian lady beetles

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

•  Spiders

•  Stored product insects

    °  Indianmeal moths

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

•  Fruit flies

•  Cluster flies

•  Western conifer seed bugs

    °  carpenter

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

• Cockroaches: German, brownbanded, American, Oriental

•  Pseudoscorpions

•  Carpet beetles

•  Houseplant insects

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

•  Apple maggot damage

•  Iris borers

•  Slugs

•  Tobacco budworms (also known as geranium budworms)

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

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
• Cluster flies
• Fruit flies
• Spiders
• 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
• Larder beetles
• Carpet beetles
• Houseplant insects

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Head lice
• Fleas

Be on the watch for these insects in August

Insects in and around homes

• Ants
• carpenter
• cornfield, pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, false honey, field, acrobat
• swarmers: cornfield, field, yellow, house, acrobat, thief
• Wasps
• social
• solitary (including cicada killers)
• Spiders
• Earwigs
• Strawberry root weevils
• Foreign grain beetles
• Fruit flies
• Boxelder bugs
• Hackberry psyllids
• Western conifer seed bugs
• Masked hunters
• 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)
• House flies
• Blow flies
• Springtails
• Ground beetles
• House centipedes
• Pseudoscorpions
• Northern fowl mites
• Larder beetles
• Carpet beetles
• Houseplant insects

Insects in gardens and yards

Gardens

• Aphids
• Apple maggots
• Argiope spiders
• Asparagus beetles (common and spotted asparagus beetles)
• Bean leaf beetles
• Black swallowtail caterpillar
• Cabbageworms
• Colorado potato beetles
• Cutworms
• Earwigs
• Flea beetles
• Iris borers
• Japanese beetles
• Northern corn rootworms
• Slugs
• Soldier beetles
• Squash bugs
• Stalk borers
• Striped cucumber beetles
• Whitelined sphinx moth

Yards

• Ants in lawns
• Birch catkin feeders
• Bronze birch borer
• Cecropia caterpillars
• Cicadas
• Dobsonflies
• Dogwood sawflies
• Emerald ash borer
• Fall webworms
• Galls, insects and mites
• Ichneumonid wasps
• Introduced pine sawfly
• Japanese beetles
• Lace bugs
• Larch sawfly
• Magnolia scale
• Mountain ash sawfly
• Pearslug
• Polyphemus caterpillars
• Redheaded pine sawflies
• Redhumped caterpillars
• Twolined chestnut borers
• Viburnum borer
• Whitemarked tussock moth
• 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
• Black flies
• Head lice
• Fleas