Be on the watch for these insects in October
Insects in and around homes
• Multicolored Asian lady beetles
• Social wasps (i.e. yellowjackets, paper wasps)
• Spiders
• Stored product insects
° flour
beetles, sawtoothed grain beetles, cigarette beetles, drugstore beetles
etc.
• Sowbugs
• Ants° cornfield, pavement, pharaoh, yellow, thief, odorous house, field, acrobat,
• Cockroaches:
German, brownbanded, American, Oriental
• Springtails
• House centipede
Insects in gardens and yards
Gardens
• Slugs
• Tobacco budworms (also known as geranium budworms)
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
• Fleas
