Be on the watch for these insect pests in April:
Insects in and around homes
- multicolored Asian lady beetles
- boxelder bugs
- ants
- carpenter
- acrobat, cornfield, field, odorous house, pavement, pharaoh, thief, yellow
- ant swarmers: carpenter, yellow, false honey, pavement
- 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
- moth flies
- phorid flies
- fungus gnats
- pseudoscorpions
- larderbeetle
- springtails
- carpet beetles
- houseplant insects
Insects in Yards or Gardens
(Note: Because of the early spring, expect insect pests 3 - 4 weeks earlier than normal. The times listed for activity for some insects are for an average spring. However, e.g. for eastern tent caterpillars, they have already started hatching in some places at the end of March)
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
